August 16 -31, 2016
PHILIPPINE ASIAN NEWS TODAY
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Canadian business leader assures no brain
drain from Philippines with
immigration to Canada
The president of the
Canadian Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines
(CanCham) said that the Philippines will not be losing its
skilled workforce even though
Canada is encouraging Filipinos to come over.
Julian Payne said that
there would be no brain drain
in the Philippines.
Payne said in a report
by the Manila-based newspaper Business Mirror that
Canada is not holding back
the Philippines’s current economic momentum with its
new and aggressive immigration policy that is targeting the country’s skilled work
force and the youth sector.
“We are helping the
employment situation in the
Philippines. They will work
overseas and add to their
skills and experience. Then,
they will eventually go back,”
Payne said.
Canadian Minister of
Immigration, Refugees and
Citizenship John McCallum
was in the country recently
to announce that Canada will
be accepting 300,000 permanent new residents in 2016.
Filipinos are high on
the list of Canada’s wish list
for immigration.
Payne added that Filipinos returning to the Philippines at the prime of their
careers would be assets when
they work again in the country because of what they have
learned, while those returning
in their old age could serve as
advisors based on their experience.
Payne said Filipinos
are a logical choice to fill in
jobs in Canada because of
their work ethic and good
moral background.
“Filipinos
are
good workers and they
better themselves at work.
They are also
good citizens
and they pay
their taxes,”
he said.
Payne
also
added
that Filipinos
are good fit
for integration
in Canada because
they
are fluent in
English, practices Catholicism and are family oriented.
He said Filipinos who
have migrated to Canada
have found work as blue- and
white-collared workers.
“They have found jobs
here as accountants all the
way to engineers,” he said.
Payne added that
Canadian government policy in theory and practice is
multicultural. He said most
people living in Canada are
first-to fourth-generation immigrants.
Filipinos, along with
the Chinese and Indians, are
the fastest-growing ethnic
groups in Canada.
Payne also said that
inviting Filipino students to
further their education in
Canada would provide benefits on both sides.
“Students are the lifeblood and future of a country.
There are schools that need
to be filled. It will be an enriching experience,” Payne
added.
He clarified that they
are in no way influencing Filipinos who will enroll in Canadian schools to stay in their
country for good.
“Canada needs immigrants. We have a low birthrate and an expanding economy. We need to fill in jobs,”
Payne said.
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