Skilled Immigrants Needed for 900,000 Jobs in Canada

There is a growing demand for skilled immigrants in many different occupations to help fill approximately 900,000 jobs in Canada that are currently available. Canada’s unemployment rate is only 5.3 percent, which is the lowest the country has ever recorded, and it has become increasingly difficult for Canadian employers to find qualified workers. One of the primary reasons for Canada’s worker shortage is that millions of Canadian workers are retiring, even as thousands of new jobs in Canada are being created. It is expected that Canada’s worker shortage could last for five years or longer, until most of the millions of Baby Boomers have retired. In order to address the shortage of workers in Canada, the government has been greatly increasing the number of Canadian visas it issues to new immigrants. During 2022, for example, 431,645 people will be allowed to move to Canada as permanent residents. To read more, click here!