Canada Immigration opens up further; one of the most conservative towns start welcoming immigrants
Urging them not to burn or stone women to death and to only conceal their faces for Halloween, fifteen years ago, a code of behavior for prospective immigrants was published by the small Canadian parish of Herouxville. It is considering policies like subsidized housing, in order to entice more immigrants and Herouxville today desires to be recognized for its diversity.
Canada has the biggest labor shortages among Western nations according to the most recent Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) data from late 2021. An unprecedented flood of retirements this year has made its predicament worse and the issue is especially severe in rural Quebec, which is frequently disregarded by the small number of newcomers who choose to remain in Montreal.
Now make up 23% of Canada's population, up from 21.9% in 2016, and they have contributed 80% of the country's labor force growth in the previous five years according to Statistics Canada's census. Herouxville's outreach is a response to a bigger dilemma that, to varying degrees, affects Quebec, Canada, and many other countries as governments in cities like London and Washington, Canberra, and Tokyo weigh political and popular pressure to limit immigration against grave labor shortages.
The requirement for more families to help fill jobs, send their children to its schools, and maintain its population, Herouxville's long-held apprehension about accepting immigrants at the expense of its French-speaking Quebec character to a more urgent concern has given way.
From hospitality and manufacturing to transport and agriculture, and is caused by ageing populations, a rise in the number of people retiring, COVID travel, and corporate turmoil, the personnel shortage is affecting both low-paid and skilled occupations. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's campaign to increase immigration to fill labor and skills shortages, which analysts say are driving up wages and endangering lower productivity, new results from the most recent census in Canada says.
Quebec with a large degree of autonomy over its own immigration policy is fighting change, more than any other province in Canada. The new data revealed that only 14.6% of its 8.3 million residents were foreign-born. Quebec seems to have had some success encouraging French-speaking people and 28.7% of recent immigrants to the province, up from 25.7% in 2016, were found to speak French as their first language with its immigration caps, according to the most available census statistics.
