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    Swedes urged to adopt Canada’s immigration model

    A new Swedish book adds voice to a chorus of voices urging the Swedish government to adopt  Canada's immigration system.

    The Globe and Mail reports the book, titled Kanadamodellen — "The Canada Model," touts our country's  targeted immigration programs, points-based recruitment scheme, and ethnic networks of support in major cities that help newcomers find employment.

    "We looked at Canada, and we saw that it worked — even though Canadians don't always say this, from a Swedish perspective we felt that Canada is a model that should be followed," Martin Adahl, one of the book's editors, told the Globe.

    In Sweden, as in other countries in Europe, governments are struggling with annual influxes of asylum seekers and refugees crossing their borders in large numbers.

    These immigrants are typically unemployed in large numbers, marginalized and far poorer than the native-born population.

    Adhal says immigrants to Canada fare much better than newcomers to countries in Europe because of several factors.

    First, it grants immediate access to employment, home and business ownership to new immigrants and refugee claimants.

    Second, it has a network of charities and non-governmental organizations that help settle and employ new arrivals. And third, it has a relatively open labour market, in which employers can easily hire and fire people, which makes it easier for immigrants to enter the work force.

    The Swedish accolades for our immigration system comes just weeks after Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney praised Canada's immigration laws saying the U.S. should study our policies

    Specifically, Romney likes Canada's point system where potential immigrants earn points for graduating university, speaking English, or having family in Canada.

    "I understand that Canada and Australia have policies that work pretty well," he said at a town hall meeting in Miami.

    "You decide what are the attributes that you're looking for, and you provide points on that basis. And people can then go on the web and see where they are, and how many people are ahead of them."

    As is often said - imitation is the highest form of flattery.

    If others are copying, or even thinking about copying components of our immigration system, then we must be doing something right.

    What do you think?

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    106 comments

    • Hartcard  •  7 months ago
      I'm sick of people from the Middle East refusing to adapt. They hate the very hand that reaches out to them. I'm also sick of responses from those who want Canada to adopt to their countries ways! The one they left, because they were sick of genocidal, and maniacs and wars.
    • Senga M  •  7 months ago
      Don't do it! We can thank Pierre Trudeau and his immigration policies for the fact that we can't recognize our own country these days. Too many privileges for too many people who consider each privilege a "right".
    • Timothy  •  7 months ago
      God help them if they adopt our model. It is ghettosizing the country. A perfect example is Brampton which was a beautiful little city but is now barely recognizable as people flee from the massive influx of Asian immigrants who have changed the entire community and Scarborough is another where the Chinese culture has taken over. When immigrants refuse to adapt to Canadian culture and actually insist on the Canadians changing to theirs it is devisive and as is happening drives Canadians and others who have come here and become 'Canadians' out of the cities they basically take over. Fortunately it's a big country and there is room to move to but it is creating many small countries within the country and will eventually result in serious problems.Of course anyone who brings up these things is immediately branded a racist but nothing could be furthur from the truth...we just want to continue our own culture and lifestlye as Canadians in Canada.
    • Violet  •  7 months ago
      The burkas and turbans on the heads should be ban in all Western Countries forever. If, they don't like it, you won't entrance Canada. Those agreement should be signed by newcomers in each Canadian Embassy in their native Country. So, if they want to take flight to Canada, they can't wear any religious thing on the plane also. Period. Geez - I wish I would be a PM here, the first law to change, would be an Immigration Law and rules. All of us do have rights to any faith and religion, but please keep private and at home, not in the public places and on the streets.
    • tired of  •  7 months ago
      Sweden DON'T DO IT.!!! You already are having trouble with what you have immigrating there now. Canada allows anyone in with no sponsorship,no work requirements and they end up supporting their immigrants who at the same time bring in their form of crime.Be smart,ban these people from your country and evacuate the present immigrants like you would your bowels.and wash your hands with soap,lots and lots of soap.
    • canuck 111  •  7 months ago
      Who ever is urging this needs an adjustment in judgement an quickly You are still a happier country then Canada don.t screw it up . Look after your own. Charity begins at home.
    • Rosco  •  7 months ago
      DON'T DO IT, from a Canadian
    • xenaphobe  •  7 months ago
      Canada and Sweden dont need immigration.PERIOD.
    • badangel  •  7 months ago
      There is also that problem of "refugees" coming here and bringing their gang mentality and extortion . Same for the children of embassy representatives who abuse their immunity .
      Canada has given away too much in the name of democracy and free speech.
      You allow the foreigner to bleed your countrymen and women and leave them holding the bag
      when so called "immigrants and economic refugees" come into the country and create ethnic tension . Multiculturism is healthy , so long as in the end, everyone is patriot of the host country.
    • Girl  •  7 months ago
      yeah, our immigration is so great.. we've become the minority in our own country. Kids don't get to celebrate Christmas anymore, some schools allow for Muslim prayers. and that network they speak of? just makes it easier for crime. I'm personally friends with many Muslims who have found their way into this network and get free stuff, under the table, all the time. Can't pass your drivers license test? just go to a place run by other Muslims, they'll hook you up. Can't get a mortgage? don't worry about that, we'll hook you up there. Of course this is not true of all Muslims or all immigrants, but Canada needs to change its laws to make the system more honest. don't copy our system, use it as a base, improve it, and then help us implement your changes! don't let these people come here and make it China jr. or Saudi 2. Need to find a way to keep Canada Canada regardless of where it's people come from.
      • a yahoo!user 7 months ago
        'KIds don't get to celebrate Christmas anymore????? Who is stopping you not to celebrate Christmas anymore?
      • Girl 7 months ago
        well, in the schools I mean. they don't have christmas plays or write letters to santa anymore like we did when we were kids.
      • Keira 7 months ago
        Oh good grief, you own country. From where do you ancestors come exactly? Did you grow from the Canadian soil.

        For me, who got roots in Canada since 1604 (Acadian) you are in my country. For a native Canadian who has been there since 9000 BC, I'm invading his country.
    • clearsight  •  7 months ago
      Don't do it Sweden, you are an identifiable homogenous ethnic group. Just ten years of our system and you won't recognize your country.
    • James  •  7 months ago
      CRAZY IDEA! IT DOES NOT WORK.

      Please, you will regret this crazy idea. In Canada, there is too much hatred here for those that think they deserve. Canadian life has gone down the drain because of it.
      Too hard to find work, Too competitive now.
    • CEW  •  7 months ago
      I think the Swedes should look a lot more carefully at Canada's Immigration system before they adopt it. I am an immigrant to this country who was made to jump through hoops for over 4 yrs before I could get a landed immigrant visa. I had to prove I could speak English perfectly, had to prove I am a professional who can get a job, have background and criminal checks in place etc. etc. And yet, when I look around me, I see other immigrants here not being able to speak the language, get a job etc. etc. How did they get in here ?? Canada may think she has an immigration system that works - but believe me it doesn't and some very "wrong" people are getting into this great country of ours. I hope we don't have to wait for our 911 to see the light.
      • smooth_canadian 7 months ago
        imigration in this country needs to come to a hualt...you are complaining about what you had to do to get you citizenship well at least you were aloud to stay...where are you from that makes a big part of what you have to do to get in here middle east indian or packistanie you are a show in...you can always leave and go back to the shit hole you came from
    • heganite  •  7 months ago
      WHAT! Young people born here can't finds jobs and we're bringing in people and 'helping them,' it's a joke...
    • incorrectpolitically  •  7 months ago
      If it was up to me, borders would be closed to immigration. I am starting to feel like a frigging foreighner in the country I was born in. A few weeks ago at a gas station I saw a moooslim woman drive up to the gas pumps, she was wearing the fashionable tent wear, with just the slit of her eyes showing, I couldn't help but to wonder what her drivers liscense photo looked like, if she had one. If this is the future of canadaaaHHH, then this country is already in the toilet.
      • smooth_canadian 7 months ago
        did you know our tax dollars go to getting them translaters so they can pass the drive test
      • Jack_Daniels 7 months ago
        Most of the drive tests aren't even legit. They bring over forged documents that say they were licensed, doctors, etc. when really they are just scheming slime bags.
    • Wil  •  7 months ago
      The old system worked far better - the system where immigrants had to EARN their way into the Canadian way of life. It's simply not fair and wrong that those who's first culture is Canadian are discriminated against in favour of new commers. New commer get twice the money that Canadian old age pensioners get who contributed to the system for a life time.

      Forget changing sweden's sytem to mimick the broken Canadian system - it's the Canadian system which is in dire need of reform first.
    • Lugoj  •  7 months ago
      I would have a suggestion, based on the points system.
      Presently only individuals get points, but not the place of origin.
      That makes that some individuals of specific countries make the highest % of prison population in CND (say Jamaica and some Asian countries?). See what happens in Vancouver area.
      Other people go to the hatread spreading, brainwash-mosque here in Cnd, where the imam himself is a terrorist, then they prepare terrorist plots in Cnd.
      Tamil Tigers terrorists find safe haven in Canada.
      Why immigration Canada does not degrade those places of origin? I would ban 100% people comming from those places, just to protect Canada. Political correctness gets us into trouble, it does not apply to criminals.
      Just give points for the country of origin too, it only makes sense.
    • Sean  •  7 months ago
      The new wave of immigrants to Canada are a big problem. They are not like in the 70s where the immigrant really felt grateful and integrated well into this society. Now all the immigrants come from corrupt governments and have adapted corrupt schemes which they bring into this country. But then Canada will allow anyone with a few buck into this country. This is what sucks. In the end it is about money and no one cares about what the citizens here have to say.
      • say, what? 7 months ago
        ArgggggHHHHHH. Is this really what Canadians have become? A bunch of bigoted idiots?
      • Wacky Hal, Agent of Distr ... 7 months ago
        Nope, say what, we've seen our country overrun and are not happy to have an alien culture take root. Richmond, BC, is not Canada.
      • Keira 7 months ago
        A "our country" that excludes is a bigoted one and that is how you create a mess like in England and France. Accepting everyone as ours is how you integrate immigrants. So, YOU are part of the problem!
    • A Yahoo! User  •  7 months ago
      DON`T DO IT YOU WILL GET BANKRUPT BE SCAMMING PEOPLE FROM INDIA,PAKISTAN,SHRILANKA, TAMILS AND DON`T FORGET ANY MUSLIMS TRYING THERE CRAP THERE TO
    • Hartcard  •  7 months ago
      Wacky Hal, Agent of Lunacy

      YES, BUT WITHOUT THE HATRED FOR THE HAND THAT WELCOMES THEM AND TERRORISM

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