The income of new immigrants in Canada is insufficient.

The income of new immigrants in Canada is insufficient.

According to the statistics of the recently released Canadian labor market report, more than 36% of new immigrants have insufficient income and live below the poverty line. This phenomenon of immigrant poverty is becoming more and more serious, and it may become a powder keg in Canada, which will detonate at any time.

According to the report released by the Canadian Labor Market and Skills Researcher Network sponsored by the federal government, many new immigrants are attracted by the Canadian immigration policy and allowed to come to Canada because their original skills and educational conditions have reached the threshold of immigration rating. However, the education and experience of these new immigrants are not recognized by Canada, resulting in people who have not been to Hong Kong for a long time being unable to integrate into the local economy and labor market.

* * * Tony Fang, a scholar at the University of Toronto, Peter Dungan, a scholar at York University, and Morley Gunderson, a researcher who wrote the report, pointed out that more and more new immigrants who have been in Hong Kong for less than five years are useless, and their lives are trapped in poverty, which eventually buried social unrest for Canada.

The report shows that at present, as many as 36% of new immigrants live below the poverty line. In contrast, in the 1960s and 1980s, only 25% of new immigrants had low incomes.

The report points out that poor new immigrants cannot integrate into the local economy, which may lead them to purgatory. On the other hand, more Canadians born in Canada began to think that the influx of new immigrants would endanger their employment opportunities, wages and economic development, further aggravating social unrest.

However, the three authors of the report agree that although there are negative factors and there are gains and losses in Canada's absorption of immigrants, if assessed in the long run, immigrants will still bring a small increase in the per capita income of Canadian nationals as a whole.