{"id":59,"date":"2011-06-24T09:38:17","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T14:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffatlaw.wordpress.com\/?p=59"},"modified":"2011-08-22T12:11:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T16:11:46","slug":"western-provinces-want-more-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jefflilaw.com\/zh\/western-provinces-want-more-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"\u897f\u90e8\u7701\u4efd\u5e0c\u671b\u6709\u66f4\u591a\u79fb\u6c11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a three-day Western Premiers&#8217; Conference in Yellowknife, Premiers from the seven western provinces and territories pressured the federal government to immediately boost immigration. West Canada may need more than a million new workers in the near future.<br \/>\nAs reported in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calgaryherald.com\/business\/Premiers+want+Ottawa+devise+disaster+plan\/4991655\/story.html#ixzz1QCcZUEO4\">Calgary Herald<\/a>, Premier Ed Stelmach of Alberta noted that workers will be in such short supply that western provinces may find themselves competing with one another for both skilled and unskilled labour. &#8220;We&#8217;ll be robbing from each other,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In Alberta alone, the predicted shortfall is about 77,000 positions in about five years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stelmach further noted that the shortages will \u201creduce our competitiveness and reduce our exports to other countries . . . Whether its developing oil and gas, agricultural activity or food processing -all of those things will go up in price because we&#8217;ll be competing for labour.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a joint statement, the premiers also blamed the federal government\u2019s measure to limit the number of applicants under the Provincial Nominee Program.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Citizenship and Immigration Canada&#8217;s decision in 2010 to cap the number of nominees per year is detrimental to economic growth in the West and in Canada and a reversal on previous commitments provinces and territories,&#8221; they wrote.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u5728\u9ec4\u5200\u9547\u4e3e\u884c\u7684\u4e3a\u671f\u4e09\u5929\u7684\u897f\u90e8\u7701\u957f\u4f1a\u8bae\u4e0a\uff0c\u6765\u81ea\u897f\u90e8\u4e03\u7701\u548c\u5730\u533a\u7684\u7701\u957f\u4eec\u5411\u8054\u90a6\u653f\u5e9c\u65bd\u538b\uff0c\u8981\u6c42\u7acb\u5373\u589e\u52a0\u79fb\u6c11\u6570\u91cf\u3002\u5728\u4e0d\u4e45\u7684\u5c06\u6765\uff0c\u52a0\u62ff\u5927\u897f\u90e8\u53ef\u80fd\u9700\u8981\u8d85\u8fc7\u4e00\u767e\u4e07\u7684\u65b0\u5de5\u4eba\u3002\u636e\u62a5\u9053...<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jefflilaw.com\/zh\/western-provinces-want-more-immigrants\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,123],"tags":[16,689,90,98],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada-immigration-and-visa-matters","category-english","tag-alberta","tag-provincial-nominee-program","tag-skilled-worker","tag-west-canada"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1MD0B-X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jefflilaw.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jefflilaw.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jefflilaw.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jefflilaw.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jefflilaw.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jefflilaw.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"https:\/\/jefflilaw.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jefflilaw.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jefflilaw.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jefflilaw.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}