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Every year, more than 35 million people visit Canada to
enjoy the many opportunities our country has to offer.
If you plan to visit
Canada, you must:
- Have a valid travel
document, such as a passport;
- Be in good health;
- Have enough money for
your stay. The amount of money you will need can vary
with the circumstances of the visit, how long you will
stay and whether you will stay in a hotel or with
friends or relatives. For more information, ask the
Canadian visa office in your country or region.
- Convince an
immigration officer that you have ties, such as a job,
home and family, that will take you back to your country
of origin;
- Convince an
immigration officer that you will leave Canada at the
end of your visit.
You may also need:
- A Temporary Resident
Visa, depending on your citizenship;
- A medical examination;
and
- A letter of invitation
from someone who lives in Canada.
At CanadianVisa.com,
we can assist you for making an exploratory trip or a
family visit to Canada. For more details on getting
visitor visa, write to us at admin@canadianvisa.com.
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Canadian Economy needs Young Labor
Census-takers have given Canada
less than a decade to kick its economic addiction to
labour and find new ways to grow," The Globe's economics
reporter Heather Scoffield writes today in her front-page
article The economic challenge of age.
"The economy has been humming along for years, based on
robust hiring that has pushed the unemployment rate to a
30-year low. But because the population is aging, Canada's
work force is only barely replacing retirees with
new workers, according to 2006 census data released
Tuesday.
"The number of baby boomers reaching retirement age will
accelerate rapidly in 2011. By 2016, young people will no
longer be numerous enough to replace retirees and the work
force could
well start to shrink, Statistics Canada says.
"The implications for Canada's economy are profound.
"The rapid aging of the labour force will mean slower
economic growth than we're used to; a strain on government
resources to cover rising health-care costs with fewer
income-tax payers;
pressure on younger workers to produce more with less; and
pressure on corporations to increase returns and dividends
for their aging shareholders who depend on the income.
"While companies and governments can take steps to
mitigate the effects of a quickly aging work force, the
only way improvements in Canada's standard of living can
be maintained is through major gains in productivity —
gains that have proved elusive for the past decade,
despite repeated efforts by policy makers and corporate
leaders," Ms. Scoffield writes.
Immigration is definitely part of the solution to filling
out the workforce as the Canadian
population ages.
And Canada could definitely make its immigration system
much more efficient when it comes to filling job vacancies
here. There is a long queue of people waiting to get into
the country, and with better communications among the
people on the list, companies searching for employees
and the federal government, it wouldn't be too difficult
to figure out how to speed up the
process for highly qualified people.
Companies, however, also need to step up to the plate to
carry some of the costs of integrating newcomers, training
them and giving them Canadian qualifications.
But, alas, even with a more-efficient immigration system,
the aging conundrum won't go away. As Statistics Canada
points out, immigrants usually come in to Canada at the
age of 30 and get older right along with the rest of us.
The number of immigrants we would need to replace retiring
Canadians and to pre-empt future labour shortages would be
astronomical, at a time when other countries are going to
be competing with Canada for those same people.
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