Why Communities NEED Immigrants?
- Aging population
- Replace and grow population
- Decrease average age of population
- Skilled workers needed for Healthcare and other industries
- Replace and grow population
- Youth leaving the area
- Attract new youth to area
- Young families bring children to fill our schools
- Succession Planning for Businesses
- Immigrants can take over existing business
- Buy and run farms
- Bring in new businesses
- Replace retiring skilled workers
- Canadian education system not producing enough graduates in key skilled areas
- Increased competition for skilled workers means Canadian born grads are being recruited by other countries
- Lack of Workers in Low Skilled Jobs
- Need workers for agriculture, service industry, and retail sector
Why It Makes Sense to Businesses:
- Canadian born workforce is shrinking and the labour demand is increasing = need to look elsewhere for labour sources
- Immigrants help Canadian companies do business with the world, and provide international connections to suppliers, distributors and markets
- Provide cultural competence knowledge and skills
- Multilingual workers
- Immigrants bring international expertise and new ways of thinking
- Local markets are becoming more multicultural
Newspaper article: We need Immigrants as boomers retire
Making Business Sense:
Video from the Waterloo Region Immigrant Employment Network.
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