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Kenney wants backlog cleared
OTTAWA — Major changes to the immigration system could include erasing a massive backlog of applications, the minister in charge said Wednesday.
Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said all options are on the table when it comes to modernizing the process of bringing in would-be immigrants.
"We must have transformational change to move to an immigration program that works for Canada and for newcomers," he said in a speech to the Economic Club of Canada.
He said the changes which will roll out over the course of 2012, will include one to give the provinces the ability to cherry-pick the immigrants they want.
He said Canada also has an eye on New Zealand, where a backlog of immigration applications was legislated away in 2003 and replaced by a pool of prospective applicants.
For now, a pilot program will allow provinces and territories to accept an additional 1,500 immigrants a year if they select them from an existing backlog of skilled worker applications.
"At this point we are looking at all options of dealing with these backlogs and coming up with a faster, more responsive system," Kenney told reporters after the speech.
A parliamentary committee report tabled Tuesday said there is currently a backlog of over a million applications, including as many as 460,000 in the skilled worker category.
Officials told the committee that without changes to the system that backlog won’t be eliminated until 2017.
Kenney said the system as it stands is dysfunctional.
"We can’t continue to tell people that they’re going to wait for eight years for a decision on whether they can come to Canada," he said.
He said the government also needs to be more proactive when it comes to communicating with potential applicants about different routes into Canada.
But NDP Immigration critic Don Davies says while it’s important to match immigrants with economic needs, there needs to be a more holistic approach to the issue.
"Immigration deals with people, it deals with families and human beings," Davies said.
"It’s not just treating people like economic widgets in a machine that we can ruthlessly bring into our country."
And he said the idea of transferring more power to the provinces and in turn to employers, has risks.
"I don’t think we want to be delegating the choice of who comes to the country to the private sector," he said.
Kenney said that wouldn’t be the point of allowing more matching between jobs and immigrants.
"It’s not about privatizing the immigration system, it’s about a more active role of recruitment for people so they have jobs when they show up," he said.
"I’d rather have an engineer working as an engineer than a cab driver. That’s really where we are trying to go with this."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/stor...og-kenney.html
Immigration backlog could be erased, Kenney suggests All options being considered to clear 7-year application backlog The government is considering all options for clearing a backlog of hundreds of thousands of applications from people who want to immigrate to Canada, Jason Kenney said Wednesday.
Kenney, the minister of citizenship and immigration, wouldn't rule out an option used in New Zealand, where the government legislated away the backlog — clearing it by eliminating the files.
Asked how seriously he's looking at that option, Kenney said the department is looking at all options for dealing with the backlog.
"We owe it to newcomers to do that. So we haven’t made any decisions, we’re still consulting, we’re looking at all the options, but I do think that we can’t continue to tell people that they’re going to wait for eight years for a decision on whether they can come to Canada," he said.
Canada's backlog is around 300,000 applications and could take until 2017 to clear.
That's unfair to the applicants and inefficient for employers looking to fill gaps for skilled labour, Kenney said, since after five or six years people's skills may be outdated for what the market requires. Canada's immigration system must function faster and be more responsive to changing needs, he said.
Kenney has already made major changes to the refugee and family reunification systems, in both cases offering compromises on some issues while taking a hard line overall. For example, last fall the department temporarily stopped taking new applications for family reunification but started offering a super visa, valid for 10 years, that allows visitors to stay longer than before.
Although he floated the idea of eliminating old files to kill the backlog, Kenney also offered the option of letting provincial and territorial governments go through current applications and pull out the ones that match their needs with what the applicants seek.
"We are launching a pilot project that will allow provinces and territories to 'mine the backlog' — in other words, to review the applications in the backlog and nominate those applicants they think their economies need now. We are also informing some applicants stuck in the federal skilled workers backlog about possible opportunities under the provincial nominee program," he said.
The provincial nominee program lets the provinces select and recommend immigrants to fill sectors where they're most needed. The federal government then processes the applications.
Using immigration to help the economyCritics have accused the government of focusing Canada's immigration system too narrowly on economic factors and limiting the opportunities to, for example, bring in aging relatives.
Kenney says statistics show highly skilled people with prearranged jobs do well when they come to Canada, earning an average annual salary of $79,000.
"What we are going to be encouraging prospective immigrants to do more and more is try to get a job lined up before they get to Canada. And that will allow us to help bring them in very quickly in the future. So the doors are always going to be open," he said.
The government has talked in the past about how Canada will have to rely on immigration to supplement an aging workforce.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in a January speech in Davos, Switzerland, that Canada is looking at ways to modernize its immigration system.
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