Immigrant's qualities

[bjre]

I would encourage more immigration from the top five areas and discourage immigration from the bottom five.

http://global-economics.ca/empin_immigrant_region.htm

2 hundred years ago, in south part of the US, a colonist can have hundreds of slaves, the slaves can not earn more, but the colonists takes what slaves created. Alter the war, those old rich becomes poor after slaves gone. You can get some idea from the novel "Gone with Wind"

Now some people takes high salary, others work more, create more value, but earn less. You can refuse those low salary real workers, then, those amount of work has to be done by those who good at "Communications". however, really not good at maths and science as those who have poor language skills. what will happen then, more technical jobs go outsoucing because no people can do it, due to the poor western education system and CAS..

Edited October 10, 2013 by bjre

[jacee]

I think I've identified the problem pretty clearly.

No you haven't.

You want to choose immigrants by country of origin instead of by objective criteria.

You provided some data on average incomes for immigrants from different countries.

However, an average just means that some earned more and some earned less, so there are immigrants from the higher income groups who are also earning lower incomes.

You have repeatedly failed to answer my questions:

What immigration criteria would you change?

Are you suggesting Canada take no refugees?

You don't care about the issue because to you, economics has little role in the importance you place on immigration. You support it, like many lefties, because it makes you feel good about yourself. If we weren't taking as many third world types, you wouldn't feel that sense of noblesse oblige is being met, which helps you offset your white liberal guilt.

You donl't think it's an issue that people coming here from certain parts of the world earn, on average, less than minimum wage because economics is just not something you care much about. It's the old right-left discourse. The right cares about logic and the left only cares about emotions.

Since this diatribe is all written as personal slams and insults, slurs and stereotypes, it's of no value whatsoever ...

... except as an indication that you don't have any valid points to make.

[Argus]

Now you want people to be bilingual? I thought you just wanted immigrants to speak English or French. Fact of the matter is everyone that went to school in Canada had comprehensive courses in one of those two languages, regardless of their ages. Anyone in their mid 30s and younger had both.

No, they didn't. What most of them got was a few hours a week. That's not going to make you bilingual. It familiarizes you with the other language, but not nearly enough to function in it beyond the "Which way is the bathroom" sort of conversation. The federal government sends unilinguals to language school (rarely these days unless they're managers) and in general they require 2,000 hours of intensive class time + extensive homework to stand much of a chance at passing the language fluency tests.