How did immigrants change Canada after World War II?

First, let's look at why Canada needs immigrants. Canada is an immigrant country, from the founding of France and Britain to accepting immigrants from all over Europe, and finally to the recognition of multiculturalism by the whole society, it has become the most distinctive immigrant country in the world. But from beginning to end, the most important reason for Canada to accept immigrants is that Canada's economic development needs more labor. Canada's vast land needs people to develop. This feature has not changed since the founding of Canada or even in the earlier colonial period. Several major changes in the history of the immigration system have focused on discrimination against ethnic minorities, but economic issues have always been included. For example, during the American War of Independence, we accepted a large number of American immigrants who could farm skillfully. After World War II, in order to avoid the economic recession after World War I, a large number of immigrants were introduced from Europe. At that time, there were no technical problems because of the simple economy and simple jobs. As long as you are healthy, you can. The immigration scoring system began in the 1970s, when education became more and more important. Canada had just established a multicultural system under the management of John Diefenbaker and Pierre Trudeau. The scoring system also helps to eliminate racial discrimination.

After World War II, Canada also accepted a considerable number of refugees on humanitarian grounds. But this ratio is always small. This is moral. But it is of great help to some civil strife countries in special times. For example, in boatmen, Canada accepted tens of thousands of refugees at one time, many of whom were overseas Chinese. The current Canadian government is helping nearly 100 Vietnamese refugees stranded in Philip for decades. In 1980s, Prime Minister Brian Muloney required that the number of immigrants per year be about 65,438+00% of the total population of Canada according to the immigration system planned by Canada's economy. This goal is the first substantial growth after Trudeau. In the following 16 years, the Canadian immigration system accepted this. Although the Liberal Party is in power, it has not strictly achieved this goal. The bureaucracy of the Immigration Bureau predicted the backlog of applications a long time ago. Around 200 1, the backlog of applications began to deteriorate. In order to solve the problem, the Canadian government once adjusted the immigration score to 72 points, and then fell back to 67 points, with poor results. Therefore, the fundamental reason for the existence of Canadian immigration system is economic demand. Immigration is very important to the future of Canada's economy, and this reform is an obvious manifestation of this, which makes the immigration system more closely coordinated with the development of Canada's economy. The changes in the world economy, especially globalization, have brought great challenges to Canada, which requires more flexibility and pragmatism. This immigration reform is actually a reform that fundamentally solves the problem. Therefore, linking with the budget is actually a very natural government behavior. At present, although the Canadian economy is good, it poses great challenges to the manufacturing industry. We believe that the reform of immigration law will contribute to the sustainable development of Canadian economy. The Current Situation of Canadian Immigrants Many people were deeply impressed by the convenience of immigrating to Canada in the 1980s, when parents and even relatives were reunited very quickly. Even in the late 1990s, it didn't take long to immigrate to Canada. But in recent years, it suddenly became unbearable. The main propaganda of New Zealand immigrants is "faster than Canada". The backlog of immigration applications is serious, which seriously affects the speed of refugee and family reunion. According to statistics, the Federal Immigration Department now has a backlog of more than 920,000 immigration applications. At the current rate of clearing, even if the Immigration Department stops accepting new applications completely from tomorrow, it will take five years to clear the backlog of applications. According to the statistics of relevant departments, if this trend continues, the backlog of immigration applications will reach10.6 million by 20 12 years. In other words, a foreign citizen needs to wait 10 years to get approval after submitting an application for immigration to Canada. While complaining about immigration applications, complaints about resettlement are also quite serious. Many highly educated people can't find professional jobs after coming to Canada, so they can only do simple manual work. A considerable number of people's feedback is that if this is the case, they will not apply for immigration that year. No matter how much the government invests in resettlement, including relaxing professional certification, it is useless for private enterprises not to hire immigrants because they do not recognize foreign work experience. All new and old immigrants have experienced this. It is difficult for graduates from many schools in Canada to find jobs, which is also a question of explaining local work experience. A considerable number of immigrants simply don't have much time to find professional jobs because of family pressure. At present, various organizations in the society generally realize that the immigration selection policy of the Canadian federal government in recent years is "obviously out of touch" with the current social situation, which leads to the disappointment and physical and mental damage of a large number of new immigrants with university degrees. One of them is that Canada's scoring system for attracting new immigrants from all over the world pays too much attention to the degree of university education, which leads to the phenomenon that "learning is useless" has become more and more common in recent years after new immigrants with higher education come to Canada. These are all factors that make Immigration Canada think and make up its mind to change. Specific changes in the immigration system. Before this bill, the Immigration Department has introduced many practical measures, which are exactly the same as the style of the immigration reform bill: for example, this government allows international students to work outside the school for the first time, which is convenient for them to integrate into Canadian culture after graduation and have valuable Canadian work experience. In addition, graduates automatically get a three-year work permit in any field after graduation. Statistics show that 80% of students are engaged in this major after graduation. All these have greatly facilitated student immigrants to stay and serve in Canada. In addition, the procedures for temporary foreign workers have been improved; For the first time, workers and students with Canadian work experience are allowed not to leave the country to apply for permanent residence; It has also increased investment in resettlement. Judging from this reform, the preparation work of the Minister of Immigration is quite detailed. More than a year before the bill was introduced, the Immigration Department held hundreds of meetings with immigrants, communities and professional organizations to listen to their opinions. Of course, these have not been reported to the media, so the society is not widely known. This style is exactly the pragmatic style of the Conservative Party. We don't want to be misled by the so-called community leaders or the media, but solve the problem fundamentally. After the first reading of the bill, the Immigration Department publicized the immigration reform in various ethnic minorities on a large scale, so that many ethnic minorities who didn't watch English media at all knew about this change. In fact, the Immigration Department translated the news into more than 20 languages so that everyone can express their opinions. In fact, this reform is not complicated. The core is that the Immigration Bureau sets annual priority categories and chooses to apply according to economic needs. Immigration offices that are not in this category can no longer handle it. The decision on priority categories is based on the suggestions made by human resources departments at all levels of government according to work needs and forecasts, and is passed by the Cabinet. The minister has no right to interfere or veto the decision of immigration officials on the case. In addition, guaranteed by the Canadian Charter of Human Rights, there is no discrimination in racial protection in different countries of the Immigration Department. For the backlog of applications, the Immigration Department will spend190,000 to deal with the backlog in the next five years; And transfer the backlog of applications from the busiest embassy to relatively busy places, such as Beijing and New Delhi, to loose embassies, such as Ukraine; At the same time, the provincial nomination process is started, and the provincial government can nominate and process some technical categories, extract and speed up the processing of corresponding applications. Generally speaking, the measures and purposes of immigration reform are legislative reform, management reform and investing more resources in processing applications. Government is a management art, and the management of immigration application is also a management art. This reform will greatly improve management. We all know that the sooner professional immigrants come to Canada, the sooner they will succeed. Therefore, one of the key points of immigration reform should be to ensure the speed of processing, while not being bound by the backlog of cases. Rejected people can get results in a short time and make plans early. It is a great waste to keep applicants waiting for six years or more. When the applicant got the immigration paper, he didn't know what his situation was. This reform is bounded by February 28th, 2008. The previous application can continue to wait or be withdrawn together with the application fee. After the new law is passed, immigration applications may be processed within three to six months. This is good for both Canada and new immigrants. Many immigrants are concerned about family reunion immigrants, which belong to humanitarian and refugee categories. The Conservative Party is the party that pays the most attention to family values, and it will certainly solve this problem better. Immigration reform has no direct impact on this. However, due to the large backlog of skilled immigrants' applications, the application for reunion is progressing slowly at present. It can be predicted that with the settlement of the backlog of skilled immigrants' applications, family reunion immigrants can be improved quickly. However, for reunion applications, the processing speed last year was 20%-40% faster than before. The New Democracy Party demands more investment and manpower to solve the backlog problem, but this cannot solve the fundamental problem of decoupling the immigration system from the economy. At the same time, it leads to either accepting a large number of new immigrants and old immigrants to compete for job opportunities in the short term, or rejecting a large number of applications in the short term. It's not fair. In addition, it may also lead to the proliferation of applications. The previous system tended to accept more educated immigrants, but it could not guarantee that the labor market needed them. The main argument of the New Democracy Party's attack is unfairness, that is, every application must be processed; In fact, this requirement is unreasonable and rigid. The power of the minister is only given the power to flexibly control immigration applications, nothing more. Another topic is about amnesty for illegal immigrants, which was raised again in the legislative debate. The New Democracy Party seems to be in favor of amnesty; But it is very, very unlikely that the Conservative Party will grant Amnesty. In 2006, when the Conservative Party came to power, this issue was heated up. Because many people who have stayed in Canada for a long time are already here and have families and jobs, there is a voice calling for Amnesty. However, the Conservative Party believes that, firstly, it is very unfair to legal immigrants, and secondly, it is equal to encouraging illegal immigrants. It seems that the fairness of the New Democracy Party is sometimes really different from that of the Conservative Party. In this immigration reform, the main opposition voices in society are the New Democracy Party and its closely related community organizations. Later, when the Liberal Party saw that the media could show its face, it engaged in several opposition activities, showing its unprincipled nature. The adoption of the immigration law will make a great contribution to the future of Canada. We also see that such a good bill has been "disputed" by the opposition party in some minority media. Therefore, every Canadian citizen, especially Chinese, really needs to study various bills and political parties to better safeguard their own interests.