More foreign workers on the way

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http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Alberta/2007/05/13/4177280.html
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( d* \" w7 r! x/ l) QCALGARY — An agreement between Alberta and the federal government will allow 25,000 foreign workers per year to come to the province to aid in its worker shortage.
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# Y5 q: P* J4 @7 l  ~( X# ~4 yAlberta Premier Ed Stelmach says the agreement will cut red tape and give the province increased influence and control of immigration.

$ V# Q7 ^0 P7 [: S! Z/ ZThe rise to 25,000 immigrant workers per year will happen over the next 10 years under the provincial nominee program.
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, g) E0 K8 p' l+ ERight now, 2,500 workers per year come under the program.

3 p: {' Z9 D6 G4 S/ H! L* pFederal Immigration Minister Diane Finley said the changes will be noticed by people offering their skills to Canada.
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The pact gives Alberta the power to nominate more immigrants possessing skills needed in the province and also provides more resources to help them settle here.

It’s a step in the right direction in breaking down time-consuming, frustrating barriers facing immigrants seeking to ply their skills here, said Fariboz Birjandian, chairman of the Alberta Association of Immigrant Serving Agencies.

2 r$ t! z; X% ~But Birjandian said Alberta’s often unaffordable housing remains a daunting hurdle for many newcomers.
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0 v4 h0 {; G. z! e2 A“For people coming in, it is a bigger issue for settling in,” he said.
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' o# h; F+ p* D$ c4 A+ n0 T% \“And we don’t want Calgary becoming a city where all the rich people live on one side and all the poor on the other.”

, y& M; b3 X7 t9 s# h3 ?Stelmach said the province is giving $285 million in new money for affordable housing and is trying to tackle that problem.

音响神仙鱼

没看到原来新闻板已经有这新闻了, 还是翻译了的, 请斑主删除....

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没去看新闻版，还好你贴了出来。信息对我们太重要了。

eric.zhang

让外劳潮来的更猛烈些吧