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Many people I have seen in Canada who drive Taxi or work as labours have either medical or Engineering degrees from their own country. When they apply for jobs, employers ask for the Canadian work experience in Canada. This is the reason why they do not get respectable profession in their own field of interest. How would employers expect a new immigrant to have work experience in Canada when no one gives them a first job? People.com give some insights with some statistics in this article. They are not promising….!
*Low-income rates among immigrants during their first full year in Canada were 3.5 times higher than those of Canadian-born citizens
*Two years later, the low-income rates were 3.2 times higher. Both numbers are higher than that in the 1990s.
*Nearly 50 percent of visible minority respondents with foreign educational credentials felt their employers did not recognize their credentials as being on par with Canadian equivalent degrees, diplomas or certificates.
*New immigrants continue to be one of the poorest groups of the country, whose low-income rates have risen to more than 3 times higher than local-born Canadians after 2000.

On the bright side it also says that the government would invest 3 million Canadian dollars (2.5 million U.S. dollars), just to find out the reason why skilled immigrants have trouble finding the right jobs.