On October 6, 2021, the Government of Canada introduced new vaccination requirements for air, rail, and marine travellers to limit the risk of spreading COVID-19.
Starting from October 30, 2021, all travellers will be required to be fully vaccinated in order to travel.
The Government established a short transition period that allows individuals to travel with a valid COVID-19 molecular test taken within 72 hours of travel.
Mandatory vaccination requirements will be in place from December 1, 2021, since the transition period will end on November 30.
#COVID_19, #vaccination, #travelers, #marine, #rail, #Vaccination_requirements
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/travel-tourism-sector-welcomes-vaccination-120000238.html
October 7, 2021
According to the RBC Economics and Thought Leadership report, Ottawa needs to develop new ways to recruit immigrants to resolve the severe labour shortage.
The report states that ‘the Federal Government and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) should close the gap between the target and actual intake of immigrants in the skilled trades by more aggressively promoting Canadian trades in source countries.’
Despite immigrants consist more than 21 percent of the Canadian population, in recent years, the share of immigrant involvement in trades programs was about 8.7 percent.
#Labour_shortage, #FSTP, #business, #trades
October 6, 2021
Canada's meatpacking industry has a labour shortage crisis, and the industry is calling on the Federal Government to let them bring in more temporary foreign workers.
The Canadian Meat Council stated that in Canada, approximately four thousand empty butcher stations at meat production facilities possess on average a 10 percent job vacancy rate.
According to the Canadian Meat Council spokeswoman Marie-France Mackinnon, in Alberta, the vacancy rate is around 20 percent.
However, in Quebec, the situation is more severe than in other provinces, since the job vacancy rate has approached 40 percent
. According to her, the province limits its ‘ability to have made-in-Canada protein. It means more meat is being processed in the U.S. and other countries, and more meat imports for Canadians.’
#Meat_industry, #TFW, #temporary_foreign_workers, #butchers, #Labour_shortage
October 6, 2021
According to Blacklock's Reporter, immigrants and minorities in Canada have more pride in the country's treatment of ethnic groups than do White people.
Most Black, Asian, and Arab Canadians were proud of the nation's achievements, according to the article. “Immigrant respondents (63%) were more likely than Canadian-born respondents (43%) to be proud of Canada’s treatment of all groups in society,” said a Statistics Canada report titled General Social Survey: Social Identity.
“For immigrants, pride in how Canada treats all groups in society is connected to the time since their arrival in Canada.” By a wide margin, immigrants who arrived in the last five years praised Canada's "fair treatment" of all groups (78%).
According to StatsCan, a large majority of all immigrants, both long-term residents and citizens (68%), were proud of the government's "treatment of all groups in society."
Only 44% of White Canadians expressed pride in Canada's treatment of all categories of people.
#demography, #immigrant_adaptation, #diversity, #newcomers
October 5, 2021
