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Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Immigration as an instument in the political struggle
Monday, February 24, 2014
News #7 Feb 24, 2014- Portuguese / English
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| Source: http://www.noticiasaominuto.com/ Feb 24, 2014 |
Os portugueses "serão elegíveis após seis meses de trabalho para receber o estatuto de residente permanente através do Manitoba Provincial Nominee Program", disse o cônsul honorário naquela cidade, Paulo Jorge Cabral.
Uma delegação de 20 empresários canadianos, e de origem portuguesa, desloca-se a Lisboa, de 18 a 20 de fevereiro, para avaliaram os candidatos, num recrutamento que terá lugar nas instalações de Xabregas do Instituto de Emprego e Formação Profissional.
Segundo o diplomata, que também virá na comitiva, os trabalhadores pretendidos na província devem ser qualificados em áreas "como a construção civil, jardinagem, manutenção de edifícios, transportes e hotelaria", para a área metropolitana de Winnipeg, uma cidade com cerca de 800 mil habitantes.
"O verão aqui (Winnipeg) é muito quente, o inverno é frio, mas é seco, é uma área muito sustentável com um custo de vido dos mais sustentáveis do Canadá", enalteceu Paulo Cabral.
Outra das vantagens do processo é a inexistência de intermediários, já que todo o processo é tratado diretamente com o governo provincial, empresário e IEFP, e assim "não há hipóteses de burlas".
Os candidatos, com idades compreendidas entre os 21 aos 45 anos, devem possuir passaporte português e serem elegíveis para o visto de trabalho no Canadá, com habilitações académicas e competências profissionais e com pelo menos um ano após o ensino secundário, ou cursos profissionais, onde apresentem os respetivos certificados.
Além disso, devem apresentar pelo menos cinco anos de experiência a tempo inteiro no ramo e, sendo não exigido para a entrevista, precisam de fazer o teste em inglês (IELTS), conforme os requisitos indicados nas ofertas de emprego disponíveis.
Não basta aos candidatos comparecer no local, primeiro terão de efetuar a carta de apresentação do currículo, obrigatoriamente em inglês para o governo de Manitoba (mpnpexploratoryvisit@gov.mb.ca) e para o centro de emprego de Lisboa (emcolacacaoexterna@iefp.pt), com a referência da oferta a que se está a candidatar e apresentando a expressão "Portugal 2014" no título do mail.
Na resposta do Manitoba Provincial Nominee Program, ser-lhe-á solicitado o preenchimento de um questionário. Caso a candidatura seja aceite, será informado a hora e dia da entrevista. Só os candidatos notificados é que é que poderão participar na ação de informação e recrutamento. Os salários serão pagos de acordos com as regras governamentais.
Aqueles que não forem selecionados para a entrevista, caso pretendam, poderão candidatar-se ao programa provincial, enviando o seu currículo para o ministério da Imigração de Manitoba.
Calcula-se que existam em Manitoba cerca de 30 mil lusodescendentes e portugueses, a grande maioria de origem açoriana, que estão "bem integrados" na comunidade local, exercendo profissões nas várias categorias, desde empregados na construção civil, a médicos, professores e advogados.
Source: http://www.noticiasaominuto.com/ Feb 24. 2014
Comment:
"The Portuguese
community in Ontario is asking a simple question:
Why is the Manitoba government travelling to
Portugal to recruit 100 Portuguese construction workers at the same time that
tens of thousands of established Portuguese construction workers in Ontario are
facing removal?
The answer is quite
simple.
- Grow Western Canada through foreign workers at the same time that the GTA and Ontario are to be denied skilled workers
- Ethnically cleanse the GTA’s job sites of Southern and Eastern Europeans
Richard Boraks Feb 24, 2014
News #6 Feb 24, 2014
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| Source: http://www.cbc.ca/ Feb 21, 2014 |
Employment Minister Jason Kenney has made two more concessions in his negotiations with the provinces and territories over the controversial Canada Job Grant, CBC News has learned.
- EXCLUSIVE | Canada Job Grant requires more time, maximum flexibility, provinces say
- EXCLUSIVE | Canada Job Grant counter-offer includes 2-year review
Kenney sent the provinces his final offer on Friday in which he agreed to give the provinces maximum flexibility in the way the grant is funded and delay the start date by three months, from April 1 to July 1, according to a source close to the negotiations.
In the provinces' counter-offer to Kenney, obtained by Radio-Canada, they asked Ottawa to allow them to choose where the money for the grant would come from.
The federal government currently gives the provinces $500 million a year in funding under existing Labour Market Agreements, but Ottawa wants to take $300 million of that and put it toward the creation of the Canada Job Grant.
As CBC News reported on Feb. 4, the provinces have suggested the grant be funded through various funding streams including the Labour Market Agreements, the Labour Market Development Agreements, and other sources of revenue including their own.
Their counter-offer also asked Ottawa to give them more time, an additional six months, to implement the grant which the government wanted to have up and running by April 1. In Friday's response, Kenney has offered to delay the start date by three months.
Not only did Kenney have to take the offer to cabinet, he also had to convince other players to agree to the "huge" concessions, a source close to the negotiations told CBC News.
While the minister was not immediately available for comment, his press secretary confirmed Kenney's final offer was meaningful enough the government hopes it will lead to a deal.
"The federal government has significantly restructured its proposal based on provincial feedback," Alexandra Fortier, told CBC News on Friday.
"We are hopeful that an agreement can be reached on the Canada Job Grant, to ensure skills training actually leads to a guaranteed job and employers are investing more in job training," Fortier said.
Kenney has given the provinces until the end of the month to accept or decline his final offer.
The federal minister made his first concession in December when he agreed to fund the provinces' share of the grant, contributing up to $10,000 of the $15,000 grant.
Provincial ministers to discuss Kenney's offer
While CBC News has not seen a copy of Kenney's final offer, several provinces said they had received it and were in the process of reviewing it.
In a telephone interview with CBC News on Friday, B.C. Minister of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training Shirley Bond said she had received the offer and even had a chance to speak briefly with Kenney about it on Friday.
Bond said her department will spend the next day or two analyzing the offer and its implications before consulting with her provincial counterparts in a conference call "early next week."
"We are cautiously optimistic," Bond said.
Brad Duguid, Ontario's minister of training, colleges and universities, said his government was reviewing the offer to see what implications it would have on skills training programs that serve "vulnerable workers."
"We look forward to providing further comment on this once we have gained a thorough understanding of the offer and have had the opportunity to consult with provincial and territorial counterparts," Duguid said in a written statement Friday.
Allen Roach, the P.E.I. minister responsible for overseeing the grant, said "I look forward to reviewing and discussing it with my provincial and territorial colleagues, as well as with our respective premiers."
Roach thanked Kenney for his "ongoing engagement and collaboration" on this file.
The office for Quebec's Minister of Labour Agnès Maltais told CBC News on Friday it had not been privy to Kenney's final offer.
A source close to the negotiations said that's because discussion between the federal government and Quebec are ongoing.
The Quebec government made it clear from the get-go it was only interested in renewing the terms of the Labour Market Agreements which are set to expire on March 31, but wanted nothing to do with the Canada Job Grant.
As indicated in this month's federal budget, in provinces where a deal can not be reached, the federal government will go ahead and implement the grant on April 1 directly through Service Canada.
Quebec called this measure a "threat." -
| Source: http://www.cbc.ca/ Feb 21, 2014 |
Comment:
"Jason Kenney’s failed
Job Grant Program is a main justification for Jason Kenney’s failed trades
immigration policies.Kenney’s plan is
that he will train so many Canadian tradespersons that Canadian employers will
no longer require foreign workers.
His goal is
laudable.
He wants to achieve
his goal by giving employers $10,000 of taxpayer money for every worker that an
employer commits to train.
Jason Kenney has
actually “guaranteed “ that employers will train and then hire workers because
of his $10,000.
Kenney is so sure
that GTA employers will train qualified workers at the bargain price of $10,000
that he wants to make sure that all Italian, Portuguese and Polish workers are
removed from Canada in order to make way for the promised wave of newly trained
Canadians.
Although Kenney’s stated
goal is politically shrewd, his management logic is straight Monty Python.
Legitimate employers
will never turn down a committed young labourer or unskilled worker with a
strong work ethic.
There is not a legitimate
trade’s employer in the GTA who will fall for the $10,000 and then look for an
unemployed Canadian who needs upgrading. Employers will train a committed
worker, with or without the $10,000. The problem is to find unemployed
Canadians with the required work ethic.
Small and medium
sized legitimate employers will not even waste their time filing out the forms
for the $10,000.
Ever since
government shut down vocational schools in the 1970’s, it is employers who have
been doing the trades training. The only folks who benefit from tax funded
scams are the scammers, both inside and outside government.
The $10,000 will
find its way into the pockets of scammers.
It is a given that
the same officials, and their families/friends who scammed “immigration
resettlement “ money will now set up front companies and siphon off the
$10,000.
Just as federal
immigration resettlement money gave us nothing by an industry of politically
“entitled” community paper pushers, so Kenney will now give us an industry of
federally financed unemployables.
What he did for the
GTA’s trades immigration, Kenney will now do to skills training
In the short term, Kenney
plans to go into the next election as the wonder boy who saved and then created
Canadian jobs.
After 2015, Ottawa will
acknowledge that its Jobs Fund needs more time and more money to become
effective.
The Jobs Fund will
fail at the same time that Italian. Portuguese and Polish tradespersons are being
removed .They will have to be replaced. Ottawa will declare that an IELTS exam
will be required to work in the trades.
Commonwealth
recruiters will make big money.
Perhaps this is what
the game is all about."
Richad Boraks, Feb 21, 2014
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
News #5 Feb 19, 2014
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"Headline: “Chris Alexander does not understand the country”
Comment: This story
will not go away. Minister Alexander accused the City of Hamilton of not
understand immigration laws. In response, the City of Hamilton accuses the
Minister of not understanding the country.
Alexander must worry
that local governments are ignoring the rule of law. The integrity of the
system is at risk.
Over the years I
have learned that people in public life are generally good advocates of their
interests and values.
The cities of
Hamilton and Toronto have an interest in maintaining local economic and social cohesion.
Minister Alexander
sees himself as representing interests which include Alberta, Ireland, England
and France. These interests do not care that through its immigration policies
that Ottawa has seriously disrupted:
- The balance in Ontario’s union-employer relationship
- Ontario’s economic well being
- The core principle that immigration policy cannot be based on a government’s ethnic preferences
The cities of
Hamilton and Toronto are to be commended for doing the courageous thing. "
Richar Boraks Feb 19,2014Tuesday, February 18, 2014
News #5 Feb 18, 2014
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| Source: Newspaper Corriere Canadese Feb 18, 2014 |
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| Source: Newspaper Corriere Canadese Feb 18, 2014 |
Comment
"The headline reads: “Immigration, Hamilton provokes Ottawa”
The City of Hamilton is a conservative, increasingly dynamic city with large populations of Italian, Portuguese and Polish employers.
Richard Boraks, Feb 14, 2014
News #4 Feb 14,2014
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| Source: Newspaper Sunnews Feb 14, 2014 |
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| Source: Newspaper Sunnews Feb 14, 2014 |
"Chris Alexander should wake up and smell the coffee.
Richard Boraks, Feb 14, 2014
Hamilton is set to become only the second "sanctuary city" in Canada.
What does that mean for current residents?
source: Hamilton Doesn't Understand Immigration Laws: Minister
Thursday, February 13, 2014
News #3 Feb 13, 2014
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| Source: Newspaper Corriere Canadese Feb, 13 2014 |
"Mr. Di Santo, the writer of this article is a well known, experienced Canadian who has served at senior public policy levels. His article is an exceptionally blunt assessment of the government having ethnic specific, un Canadian motivations concerning immigration policies."
Richard Boraks, Feb 13, 2014
News #2 Feb 12, 2014
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| Source: Newspaper Corriere Canadese Feb, 12 2014 |
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| Source: Newspaper Corriere Canadese Feb, 12 2014 |
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| Source: Newspaper Corriere Canadese Feb, 12 2014 |
Comment
"This article does a fine job desorbing the
difficulty faced by one young Italian couple in Ontario trying to obtain an LMO"
Richard Boraks, Feb 12,2014
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
News #1- FEb 11,2014
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| Source: Newspaper Corriere Canadese Feb, 11 2014 |
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| Source: Newspaper Corriere Canadese Feb, 11 2014 |
Comment
"The point of this
article is that the federal government favours every part of the world over
Europe and that within Europe, Italy, Portugal etc are low on the list.
The article confirms
that Italy and Burundi are tied at 613 immigrants each.
The article also
confirms that most foreign workers come from the Asia Pacific region followed
by Africa and the Middle East."
Richard Boraks, FeB 11, 2014
Monday, February 10, 2014
Italian NewsPaper Corriere Canadese
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| Source: Newspaper Corriere Canadese Feb, 7 2014 |
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Meeting #1
Notes for
meeting: February 6, 2014
Point # 1: Is it worth fighting with
government on this issue?
- Many workers are
serious about wanting to stay legally
- Many employers and
unions are serious about getting out of the illegal worker tradition
Point # 2: Chances of success
Although there are never guarantees of success, the
following is clear:
- The cost of doing
nothing is very high
- Straight forward
political action usually produces some positive results
- We are not alone. We
are blessed with a good team.
Point #3: Who can pressure?
- Media support
- Community organization
support
- Business and union
support
- Individual Canadian
family support
Point #4: Going Forward: What can be
done by employers?
- Support worker and
community meetings (invite politicians)
- Ask media , unions and local community organizations for
support
- Ask workers and
families to email politicians
- Telephone and meet
politicians
- Continue to file LMO
applications... government cannot think that it can crush the employers
despite the advertising rules.
Welcome
Since 1975 our office has been an advocate for Ontario business
and skilled trades workers as they regularly come to terms with Immigration
Canada's chronic inability to deal with labour force realities in the nation’s
largest economy.
Ottawa has three general principles when dealing with worker
immigration.
First, government is obsessed with balancing and maintaining the
25 %( French)-75% (English), linguistic nature of Canada. Workers from India,
Ireland, England, France, Burundi, Seychelles, Haiti and Tunisia are
linguistically good.
Second, Ottawa does not care that it is killing Ontario business.
Language trumps economic survival. Productive tax payers from Italy, Portugal
and Poland are linguistically bad and therefore expendable.
Third, since Ottawa is presently run by Albertans for Alberta,
employers in that province are not subject to Ottawa’s linguistic contortions.
Meanwhile, business in Ontario has to survive. As a rule, Toronto
business has survived by ignoring Ottawa .Toronto hires tens of thousands of
illegal workers simply because Ottawa has no idea as to how to educate young
Canadian trades persons or any desire to provide legal papers to proven European
skilled workers.
After 30 years of benignly ignoring Ontario’s work places, government
has now declared war on Ontario trades employers.
Government’s latest absurdity is a concerted, full scale attack on
the ability of Ontario business to choose their own workers.
Starting in 2015, Immigration Canada will dictate to Ontario business
which workers are acceptable to government, not the employer.
By manipulating language requirements , government will allow Ontario
businesses to select between English and French speaking candidates with nice
,and largely fictitious , resumes from third world counties .They will have no Canadian
work experience .They are a proven drain on the Canadian economy. Business will
not hire what Ottawa will select.
Most successful, legal and illegal foreign workers in Ontario are from
places like Italy, Portugal, Poland etc. They will be effectively banned from
continuing to work for established employers. Ottawa does not want their taxes
or their proven skills.
In 2014, government will accelerate the process to force Ontario
employers to lose their legal, qualified European workers. Shortly thereafter,
the illegal qualified workers will be removed. There will be no one to take their
place. Businesses will close.
Government’s justification for this latest round of linguistic, ethnic
and commercial cleansing is it's professed commitment to a politically and
corruption driven skills training plan which is doomed to fail.
In summary, Ontario business is facing a clear and present danger
from the federal government.
Our office is taking a lead position in lobbying government on
behalf of Ontario trades employers.
We welcome your support. We welcome your participation in the
discussion.
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