More foreign workers on the way

音响神仙鱼

http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Alberta/2007/05/13/4177280.html


' t0 G% f7 ~% }+ lCALGARY — An agreement between Alberta and the federal government will allow 25,000 foreign workers per year to come to the province to aid in its worker shortage.

2 Y- [; r% B4 C) R- K% D, GAlberta Premier Ed Stelmach says the agreement will cut red tape and give the province increased influence and control of immigration.
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* k# r. f* T$ PThe rise to 25,000 immigrant workers per year will happen over the next 10 years under the provincial nominee program.

" ^' W4 V' T% C. e; @$ ]2 dRight now, 2,500 workers per year come under the program.
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% [5 q. a% o, g5 w2 u" N8 TFederal Immigration Minister Diane Finley said the changes will be noticed by people offering their skills to Canada.
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0 v* R; ?# G5 }. R4 _' wThe pact gives Alberta the power to nominate more immigrants possessing skills needed in the province and also provides more resources to help them settle here.

It’s a step in the right direction in breaking down time-consuming, frustrating barriers facing immigrants seeking to ply their skills here, said Fariboz Birjandian, chairman of the Alberta Association of Immigrant Serving Agencies.

But Birjandian said Alberta’s often unaffordable housing remains a daunting hurdle for many newcomers.

“For people coming in, it is a bigger issue for settling in,” he said.
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- e, T7 t! ?5 ?8 Q! V: b“And we don’t want Calgary becoming a city where all the rich people live on one side and all the poor on the other.”
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Stelmach said the province is giving $285 million in new money for affordable housing and is trying to tackle that problem.

音响神仙鱼

没看到原来新闻板已经有这新闻了, 还是翻译了的, 请斑主删除....

今天闲着

没去看新闻版，还好你贴了出来。信息对我们太重要了。

eric.zhang

让外劳潮来的更猛烈些吧