Canadian Immigration Minister wants to 'stop the madness' in immigration system
Anna Mehler Paperny From Thursday's Globe and Mail Published Wednesday, Apr. 04, 2012 10:10PM EDT Last updated Thursday, Apr. 05, 2012 9:22AM EDT Jason Kenney has had it with incremental measures. “It frustrates the hell out of me,” the Immigration Minister told The Globe and Mail’s editorial board on Wednesday. “We're bringing hundreds of thousands of people into the country to end up, many of them, unemployed or underemployed in an economy where there are acute labour shortages.” That’s how he justifies the federal Conservatives’ drastic plans for immigration – shifts in who comes here, and how, that the government is now pushing more urgently than before. Ottawa wants to transform the immigration system within a year and a half to allow international companies and Canadian professional organizations to assess the education and credentials of any would-be newcomer. Under the new system, employers, not bureaucrats, will decide who comes to C...