In order to solve the labour woes that have been affecting Canada’s job market over the past few years, and which have been deepened as a result of the country’s isolationist stance since 2020, the Canadian federal government announced it would bring over 1.3 million immigrants into the country through a strategic plan set to be executed over the next three years.
According to a report from Statistics Canada, there are over a million job vacancies across the country, and even though a significant portion of these unfilled positions are in either service jobs or manual labour, there are opportunities throughout the spectrum that are proving harder to fill.
The Daily Hive recently reported that companies in the city are struggling to hire software engineers and developers, a noteworthy event given the buzz that usually accompanies these jobs. Technology companies, generally, have a substantially higher number of applicants than positions available.
The first cause of this labour market debacle is, according to Radio Canada, a natural phenomenon derived from the way Canadian demographics have evolved. The RCI report mentions how, for years, the growth of the productive segment of Canadian society has almost entirely depended on the arrival of new Canadians.
“Last year, immigration represented almost 100 per cent of the growth of the workforce, and…
