Canada Should Allow More Foreigners To Become Canadian

If we walk on the street in downtown of Vancouver, or take a look at the cafeteria of some colleges and universities, we will see a lot of people who are from other countries, such as China, Japan, Korea, Iran and Brazil. When we go to the Vancouver international airport, if some international flights from Asia have just arrived, we will see a big crowd of Asian coming out of the gates. Not only that, but there are lots of houses and business which belong to Chinese in North Burnaby and Richmond. As more and more immigrants come to Canada, TV is showing a higher frequency of foreign programs. Since the majority of the immigrants can make different kinds of contributions to Canada, the Canadian government should allow more and more foreigners to immigrate to Canada.

First of all, immigrants can change the structure of the age and increase the population of Canada. There are about 30 million people in Canada whose area is the second largest in the world. This number of population seems to be too small for this big country. In discussing the relationship of immigrants and population aging in Canada, Denton, Spencer and Feaver point out, “As is well

Secondly, immigrants can improve the quality of the population in Canada. As is well known, independent and skilled immigrants, who are in the majority of all immigrants, must be able to obtain a certain number of points based on their personal skills education and occupations which are useful, popular and listed occupations for which immigration Canada lists points, such as program design, internet technology and engineering. A capable applicant must also have at least Bachelor’s degree and 1 full year work experience in specified fields of employment. As a result, only those really qualified applicants can satisfy those requirements of becoming an immigrant. Consequently, most independent and skilled

In addition, Bruce Bartlett observes in his discussion about the relationship of immigration and population in Canada, “According to the

The last, which is also the most important, reason of why the immigration department of Canada should allow more and more foreigners to immigrate to Canada is that immigrants can improve the economic situation of Canada. The essential part of a market is the population size. The best example to illustrate this is the market of China, which has such a big population that it attracts lots of corporations to invest in China. This is one of the most important reasons why China has

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admit, “Furthermore, the focus of this line of research is on the comparison of immigrants with native population, the question being, ‘Do immigrants succeed in the labour market as well as nonimmigrants?’ The answer has often been ‘yes,’ and sometimes immigrants do even better than natives” (185). It is clear to see that immigrants can increase the labour productivity; hence, they can improve the economic situation of Canada.

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