Immigration Case Study - Canada Flashcards

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Canada key characteristics

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  • High income country
  • 2013, had a GDP per capita of $44,843
  • GDP growth rate of 2.5%
  • HDI of 0.902
  • Total population = 35.1 million
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New immigration policy

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  • Aimed at country’s long term requirements for engineers, IT specialists and health care workers
  • Potential migrants ranked on 1200-point system which enables young, highly skilled immigrants to be fast-tracked
  • Every effort is made to employ a Canadian citizen first, but half the necessary points can be awarded to migrant applicants with a permanent job offer from an employer, especially if the employer is located in one of the provincial employment schemes away from the big cities of Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal
  • Applicants in their 20s receive maximum points for age and graduates are also favoured
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