Tarapia Tapioco

    >Only goes to prove there are no jobs in Canada for skilles workers.
There ARE professional jobs in Canada, mainly for people owning
Canadian degrees, Canadian work experience, and preferably (English)
Caucasians. This has been Canadian heritage and reality. For average
skilled immigrants, there are also jobs of cabbies, cashiers, janitors,
gas boys, etc.

    >Here's an excerpt form that article:
    >"Mark van Manen, Vancouver Sun / Mostafa Eizadifar is a pilot who flew
707s in
    >his native Iran, but is now a taxi driver. Paul Martin says immigration
    >officials overseas don't tell newcomers it's difficult to
findprofessional work
    >here."
Well, Paul Martin was forced out of current cabinet because Chretien
favours Manley. (Now there is a Copps.) Paul Martin was literally cut
off from mainstream power rink. The leverage Paul Martin can employ,
and has been employing, is minorities, largely immigrants. If Paul
Martin had still been in the mainstream power rink, he'd been
committing political suicide by stating or touching upon the realities
skilled immigrants face. Since Paul Martin is a sure front runner now,
(That means Manley would be out of the picture for his harsh
"personalized attacks" on Paul Martin previously, especially in the
financial aspects Paul Martin has been respected for) let's see if
Martin has the will and guts to pierce through the "Canadian factors"
barring skilled immigrants from performing their expertise certified by
Canadian immigration and close the gap between what Immigration deems
sufficient and what the real job market requires on skilled immigrants.
This is a cultural thing no politics can alter it. Canada, mainly run
by English descendants except Quebec, has been prohibiting coloured
immigrants from entering until it realized Asians could bring in lots
of money to inflate the realty value in creating paper wealth for
locals to compensate the losing their pensions in gambling stock
markets . But Asians, even Hong Kongers, have been fenced out of
economic power rink, hence political power rink. That's why Martin has
been on thin ice for his speaking out and leveraging on immigrant
minorities, which doesn't mean he will or would deliver the justified
equality never existent in Canadian history. What about aboriginals?
Liberal premier (the drunk driving got photoed one) last year still
tried to bully aboriginals by legitimizing the robberies of aboriginal
properties via voting. This was in line with Chretien's attempt to take
away reserve land by force from aboriginals as the minister in charge.
On the other hand, Eizadifar should have long realized there is no way
average Canadians would feel ok to sit in an airliner flown by an Iran-
trained pilot, even with upgraded Canadian pilot training. This is not
US where racial concern is highly compressed in professional
circumstances. If any immigrant gets a airliner pilot seat, that's an
exception, rather than a rule. And we can call him a "luck broke" or
"luck SOB", depending on who you are and what education you have.
Overall, immigrants should pay close attention to things happening in
politics because in a democracy participation/voting shape the systems
which treat you well or simply mistreat you.