{"id":18050,"date":"2012-12-04T13:11:40","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T18:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=18050"},"modified":"2012-12-04T13:11:40","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T18:11:40","slug":"an-american-view-of-canadas-immigration-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/12\/04\/an-american-view-of-canadas-immigration-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"An American view of Canada&#8217;s immigration policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2012\/12\/04\/immigration-lessons-from-up-north\" target=\"_blank\">Shikha Dalmia<\/a> says that the US could learn useful lessons on immigration policy from Canada:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; Canada\u2019s provincial-nominee program is a model of economic enlightenment. Under this system, 13 provincial entities sponsor a total of 75,000 worker-based permanent residencies a year, and the federal government in Ottawa offers 55,000. Each province can pick whomever it wants for whatever reason\u2014in effect, to use its quota, which is based on population, to write its own immigration policy.<\/p>\n<p>Provinces may pick applicants left over from the federal program. They can also solicit their own applicants from anywhere in the world. In a direct attempt to poach talent from the U.S., some provinces are sponsoring H1-B holders stuck in the American labyrinth.<\/p>\n<p>The government in Ottawa can\u2019t question either the provinces\u2019 criteria or their methods of recruitment. Its role is limited to conducting a security, criminal and health check on foreigners picked by the provinces, which has cut processing time for permanent residency to one or two years\u2014compared with a decade or more in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Kurland, a lawyer who is considered Canada\u2019s top immigration expert, notes that provinces use the program for diverse goals such as enhancing existing cultural or ethnic ties with other countries. Not surprisingly, the most popular reason is economic: to augment the local labor market.<\/p>\n<p>The program gives British Columbia the same flexibility to sponsor, say, bricklayers as it gives Ontario to sponsor computer programmers. It doesn\u2019t treat the entire Canadian economy as monolithic and pretend that distant federal bureaucrats can effectively cater to local job markets. (Canada\u2019s federal program is a different story altogether.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shikha Dalmia says that the US could learn useful lessons on immigration policy from Canada: &#8230; Canada\u2019s provincial-nominee program is a model of economic enlightenment. Under this system, 13 provincial entities sponsor a total of 75,000 worker-based permanent residencies a year, and the federal government in Ottawa offers 55,000. Each province can pick whomever it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,25,84,13],"tags":[491,554,95,87],"class_list":["post-18050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-economics","category-government","category-usa","tag-bc","tag-immigration","tag-jobs","tag-ontario"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4H8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18051,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18050\/revisions\/18051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}