Canada to Introduce New skilled trades category for Permanent residence
Canada plans to make it easier for skilled tradespersons to become permanent residents in order to fill the ever growing gap between the jobs and available labour to take those jobs in construction, natural resources and similar industries.
While announcing its government’s intentions to transform Canada’s immigration system into a flexible and fast system that depends more on jobs, growth and prosperity, Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney said, “Our Government recognizes that our country faces a critical shortage in certain skilled trades.”
He further added, “That’s why we are taking concrete steps to address this problem at a national level.”
Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) intends to introduce an independent and efficient program for skilled tradespersons later in 2012.
Skilled tradespersons are in high demand in Canada particularly in the natural resources and construction sectors. Skilled trades include a number of occupations in construction, transportation, manufacturing and service industries.
The existing criteria for federal skilled worker includes factors such as age, formal years of education, language ability etc and applicant must score at least 67 points out of 100. However, tradespersons usually do not have many years of formal education. Thus, only three percent of the federal skilled workers allowed to enter country are tradespersons.
The new proposed Skilled Trades Program will enable the tradespersons to be assessed with more emphasis on practical training and work experience rather than formal education.
Tradespersons will also have to demonstrate their basic minimum skills in either of the Canadian official language due to importance of language in their success and inheritability in the Canadian society.
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Hi Dear,
Thanks for allowing me to follow you on twitter i need to talk to someone in the immigration just to share my situation and feelings regarding this, since 2007 i came already here in canada and work as a food counter attendant on tim hortons, on 2009 of February, i have started my application on an Engineering firm as an autocad and i have recieved a work permit on that at the end of august of 2009 after that i decided to resign to my job on timmies and i phone my boss to start on a new job, not realizing that they were already affected by a recession that time, i phone him and i come to his office again, we talk and he said i cant employ you rightnow i have layoff 3 new people just this month cause theres not enough project right now he said we base our job on the project we get now since there is nothing i can do about it i decided to stay on my brothers place till i get a new work permit, it sucks after waiting for almost 8 months its all gone, 2009 is a recession time here in Canada till 2010, so then i go back to food chain and after that 2 years after i decided to enroll a course on trade here in canada the name of college is NAIT, i have talk to immigration they said its okey to go school for six months on a work permit status then 1 year to 2 years can be a student visa, so i tell my employer of my situation and he decided to give me a partime schedule during saturday and sunday work so then i work 10 hours for week ends just to get something for allowance, i really appreciate the upportunity my boss has givin me hes one of a gods blessing for me, mean while i have recieved a mail from an employer that i never even expect to give me a work permit, they said we have recieved your confirmation no. for your LMO he said and you can apply for a work permit for it by your self, so then i apply a new work permit and pay the 150 dollars and i decided to transfer to that company, i told my self i have decided to go to school since february 2011, and the school evaluation takes 6 months till they approved my application as a machinist, but then thinking that time that not sure if i am approve to school i decided also to apply for that job on june 2011 after four months then i recieve the LM, so then i talk to the my new boss told him my situation and they agree with it to work partime during week ends, at the end of 2011 we challenge the first apprenticship board exam and i pass it, then we go forward for another 3months to finish second year of the course and after six months March 23, 2012, i finnish 1st and 2nd year pre employment program course. now i am applying for the job and i have recieved email from them for intrview i came there and we set we talk regarding wages company rules and benifits, bla ba bla, and i ask them if they have an open LMO? they said they dont have they said they are on process of advertising it, and they said its take time maybe four months they said, and i came to another one same problem they face, another one same, untill i came to another one we talk and he said try to phone the immigration why is it they allow you to go to school for uppgrading and they could not change your work permit to open work permit cause he said we hire an International students graduate from NAIT but they have an open visa, they wonder why i told him i have talk to the immigration and they said its okey you can go to school for six months on a work permit status not knowing that after six months i still have the same problem even if i graduate from NAIT as a machinist, i told my self what was happening to the government program aim to help skilled worker? where is it right now! now i am still waiting for the one company that willing to hire me as an apprentice machinist i still dont know when it will be release, i’m hoping that they the government or the immigration will focus on this matter cause that position i apply needs a lot of skilled workers espcially grauates here in canada to help the growing shortage of skilled workers i dont have a job cause i quit on the last job thiinking that they have already an open LMO to get a new work permit. my mistake too quiting a job not sure on the other one if they have it.
hope you guys could help me with this
God bless,
Jose Christopher Doblado