Amid the deteriorating relations between India and Canada, Canadian PM Trudeau has announced the Canada First policy. According to reports, the biggest impact of this policy in Canada will be on the Indians living there.
Announcing this policy on the social media platform, Trudeau wrote that companies will now have to give priority to Canadian citizens in jobs. When a company hires a foreign citizen, it will first have to tell that they did not find any suitable Canadian citizen for that job.
The biggest impact of this policy of the Canadian government will be on the Indians settled there. Because due to the leniency given by the Trudeau government to foreign workers during Corona, many Indian students who went to study there started working in shopping malls, restaurants, food stores, due to which they started earning some income along with their studies. According to a report, in 2023, the number of Indians was the highest among foreign temporary workers working in Canada.
The Trudeau government of Canada had made new rules for the recruitment of temporary workers to improve and stabilize its economy during the Corona epidemic. Under this, foreign nationals were given the facility to work in Canada. Indian students and people working there benefited greatly from this initiative of the Canadian government. After the decision of the Canadian government, the interest of Indian students towards Canadian universities increased even more. In 2024, about 4.26 lakh Indian students went to Canada to study.
Apart from reducing the role of foreigners in temporary workers, the Canadian government has also announced a reduction in the number of permanent citizenships granted. Mark Mill, who holds the post of Immigration Minister in the Canadian government, said that a year ago our government had decided to grant citizenship to 5 lakh people every year, but now we have to change it according to the circumstances. He said that now we will give citizenship to 3.95 lakh people next year, 3.80 lakh in 2026 and then 3.65 lakh people in 2027.
The Trudeau government’s decision to grant permanent citizenship to 5 lakh people every year faced a lot of criticism.
On this decision of the government, Trudeau said that immigrants have played a very important role in reviving Canada’s economy from the pandemic but now we have recovered from it. Now we have to look towards policies that provide stability for Canada’s future.
Canada has always been a country with open doors for immigrants. According to the 2021 census, about 24 percent of Canada’s population was born outside Canada. There is also a significant number of Indian immigrants in Canada. Two out of every 10 people living in Canada are Indian immigrants.
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