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Express Entry 2015 Report

Attached are a few samples taken from this week’s Canada Immigration report touting the apparent success of the Express Entry system in 2015. 

Even by Ottawa standards, the report wins the Potemkin Village award for deceit.

…a Potemkin village describes a structure built solely to deceive others into thinking that some situation is better than it really is.

Express Entry was sold as a solution to economic immigration backlogs and economic demographic shortfalls. Government would respond in real time to the real economic needs of the economy. In particular, Canadian employers would be well served.

The Report expects us to believe that Express Entry has moved the yard sticks forward on economic immigration.

The 2015 report stands as testament to the conclusion that Express Entry has been a Trojan Horse designed to savage the Federal Skilled Worker, Canadian Experience Class and Federal Skilled Trades Worker programs.

In order to understand the scope of the Report’s treachery one has to compare the number of 2015 Express Entry landings with the 2014 landings generated by the same CEC, FSW and FSTP programs minus the administrative “facilitation “ of Express Entry .

• The 2015 Express Entry landings for CEC, FWS and FSTP were 10,000, including spouses and dependents

There is no breakdown for how many skilled trades program were issued in 2015. We have to assume that there was no increase from the 11 visas in 2013 and the zero visas in 2014

See :www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/reports/ee-year-end-2015.asp report.

• The 2014 landings for CEC, FWS and FSTP were, including spouses and dependents … 91,271 including zero FSTP    

See: www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/statistics/facts2014/permanent/02.asp

What all this means is as follows:

•   In 2015 , Canada let in 900% fewer legal workers and dependents

• The shortfall in legal workers was reduced substantially by illegal workers

How is Canada to survive this type of nonsense?

Why hasn’t John McCallum put the whip to his staff?

Richard Boraks, April 5 2016