Firm Helps Mexicans Get Jobs in Canada
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Canada’s labor shortage has created a unique opportunity that a recently opened Tucson business is capitalizing on.
The mother-daughter operation, Consultantes Canadienses LLC (Canadian Consultants), specializes in connecting displaced Mexican workers with jobs in Canada.
“My country is going through a crisis,” said Margaret Cid, a native of Toronto. “I have employers telling me, ‘I just want someone who shows up.’”
So Margaret Cid and her mother, Carmen Cid, who are Canadian citizens and legal U.S. residents, created a step-by-step guide for how to apply for a job, obtain a visa and get settled in Canada.
After spending more than a year investigating the potential for such a business, Margaret Cid determined that connecting desperate employers with workers displaced by Arizona’s employer-sanctions law would be a success.
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“Now you can do the jobs that Canadians don’t want to do,” she said, prompting laughter from the crowd.
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Although many of those inquiring about relocating to Canada have been illegal workers in the United States, Margaret Cid also has been contacted by U.S. citizens who have lost their construction jobs because of the housing downturn.
Leaving Arizona for Canada
Since the business opened in early February, three clients have received job contracts, Margaret Cid said.
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According to Canadian census reports, the country’s aging population, coupled with slow growth, has left a labor void.
In 2006, the median age of the workforce surpassed the 40-year-old mark for the first time.
Already, more than 20 percent of workers in Canada are foreign-born, and government officials are pouring millions into programs for immigrants.
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Efforts to get workers include a streamlined immigration program, especially for temporary workers, Margaret Cid said.
Illegal opportunities tempt, too
Consultantes Canadienses offers a four-part program that begins with a free seminar and overview conducted weekly at the central Tucson office, 2030 E. Broadway, Suite 3.
As the services become more personalized, the prices increase from $25 up to $150, which includes Margaret Cid meeting the worker in Canada to help obtain settlement services.
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Under Canadian rules, employers wanting to hire foreigners must prove they are unable to find citizens to do the work. They can then apply for what’s known as a “Labor Market Opinion” from the central government to seek workers from outside the country.
Depending on which country the immigrant is from, the process can take one to five months, which has led to some employers hiring illegal workers—something Margaret Cid warns against.
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In Canada, children of parents without proper immigration documents will not be allowed to enroll in school or in the national health program, and illegal workers can’t open bank accounts.
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Email Gabriela Rico at grico@azstarnet.com.
(Posted on March 19, 2008)
Comments
Article by “Gabriela Rico”…Typical. Guess Canada has the same puppet masters that Europe and the USA have. Does anyone see the connect the dots being played on Whites throughout the world?
Posted by at 7:13 PM on March 19
Man, there’s no end to people who are willing to help Mexicans. Where were all these folks when others or myself needed them? It is amazing. From the article: In Canada, children of parents without proper immigration documents, will not be allowed to enroll in school or in the national health program,and illegal workers can’t open bank accounts.
OBSERVATION: Americans who regularly call Canadians kooks and strange should read this sentence, several times a day, as they fight unlicensed illegal alien drivers on the road while going to work, etc.
Posted by Bobby at 7:22 PM on March 19
“In Canada, children of parents without proper immigration documents will not be allowed to enroll in school or in the national health program, and illegal workers can’t open bank accounts.”
I am sooo jealous of Mexico and Canada’s sensible immigration laws. Bet they don’t recognize anchor babies, either. Think Pelosi, Reid and McCain could generate enough respect for America to duplicate our neighbors fine laws?
Posted by Nikita at 8:41 PM on March 19
Pretty soon the Mexicans will be claiming “The Great White North” was stolen from them and that they are merely reclaiming lost territory.
Posted by at 9:07 PM on March 19
Pretty seen the Mexicans will be claiming “The Great White North” was stolen from them and that they are merely reclaiming lost territory.
Posted by at 9:07 PM on March 19…
You’re absolutely right! It all started with NAFTA leading to the NAFTA Super Highway… Then it’ll be the SPP leading to the NAU (the North American Union)… And then we’ll all be “one big happy family.”
Of course, Mexico can’t wait for this lovely “union” to be formed so that they’ll have full rights to live and work anywhere in North America!
A fantastic deal for dirt poor Mexico, but a terrible deal for America and Canada!
Posted by Jackers at 11:00 PM on March 19
I’m puzzled why Canada would have a so-called “labour shortage” when legal immigrants from around the world are pouring into our country at a rate of 5000 per week!
There’s also no mention of hundreds of thousands of unemployed Canadians supposedly seeking jobs, so what is the problem?
Martin Collacott, a former Canadian ambassador in Asia and the Middle East and currently a Senior Fellow with the Fraser Institute in Vancouver asserts “we simply don’t need the services of many of the skilled people coming to Canada. The jobs they hoped to find here do not exist.”
Whatever job shortages that do exist in certain sectors can and should be filled by Canadians without resorting to importing more people we don’t really need.
Check out the ‘weekly bulletins’ on this immigration watchdog:
http://www.immigrationwatchcanada.org/
Posted by at 11:42 PM on March 19
Why not in Mexico ? Racism on the metizos part, excuse me.
Posted by Michigan patriot at 12:28 AM on March 20
Pretty seen the Mexicans will be claiming “The Great White North” was stolen from them and that they are merely reclaiming lost territory.
This is exactly the mind set. They they like to call themselves the indigeous people of the (continent). Of course it means nothing since countless neighboring countries, all over the globe have been fueding for centuries, and are hardly considered brothers just because they hail from the same continent. Whites could all go back to Europe as they claim they want to see happen, and once the economy of the US and Canada was in the toilet, they would be trying to make it to Europe calling themselves indigenous Earthlings, or would refer to their Spanish ancestry. Whatever excuse is handy, to overtake a region with a better economy, and infrastructure, built by Gringos.
Posted by at 2:53 AM on March 20
“Americans who regularly call Canadians kooks and strange should read this sentence, several times a day, as they fight unlicensed illegal alien drivers on the road while going to work, etc.”
I always have licensed illegal aliens driving by me while I walk to work.
Posted by at 10:36 AM on March 20
Great! When a Canadian court indicts the Cids for conspiracy to violate Canadian immigration laws, we can extradite them to stand trial there.
Posted by Michael C. Scott at 1:30 PM on March 20
Just shuffling them around doesn’t accomplish anything — except to redistribute them. The place for Mexicans is in Mexico.
Posted by at 1:31 PM on March 21