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When Justin Trudeau was elected prime minister last fall, he committed to using science and research to lead his decision-making in government. He promised to look to the best advice of the best experts when governing and making decisions.
But when Trudeau introduced his new citizenship laws, he did the opposite.
Immigration Minister John McCallum recently tabled a bill to rewrite Canada’s citizenship laws, including eliminating the requirement for newcomers over age 54 to pass a language test in order to become a citizen.
Scrapping the language requirement for older immigrants is not a decision based on science.
In fact, Trudeau’s citizenship law ignores the data and research on the importance of language skills in Canada. It goes against just about every expert and researcher in the immigration field.
Data from the department of Citizenship and Immigration Canada found that “immigrants who are fluent in English or French do better in terms of earnings than those who aren’t.”
Newcomers with stronger language skills are more likely to be employed, earn higher wages, and less likely to rely on social welfare programs.
These immigrants help boost economic growth and contribute to the tax base in Canada.
Beyond economics, newcomers who learn our language will integrate better in Canadian society. Language skills help newcomers make new friends and adjust to life in Canada. In a Statistics Canada research study, 96% of immigrants said learning English was important or very important to life in Canada.
Perhaps most compelling of all, a new government report found that speaking English or French in Canada has significant health implications.
A recent Statistics Canada report found that newcomers with poor English or French skills were three times more likely to report ill health than newcomers with strong language skills. This decline in health is particularly widespread amongst older immigrants.
The report found that “limited official language proficiency was strongly associated with a transition to poor health among male and female immigrants who had earlier reported good health.”
People who were healthy when they arrived in Canada became sick, just because they didn’t learn our language.
Yet, the Trudeau government is eliminating the requirement for newcomers to learn English, particularly for older immigrants who are more likely to get sick without language skills.
When newcomers arrive in Canada, they need encouragement to begin the integration process. The language requirement for citizenship is a great incentive. It urges newcomers to take a language training course – funded by the taxpayers and free of charge to newcomers – and start communicating in English in their every day lives.
When the government drops that incentive, it allows newcomers to retreat into their own ethnic communities. It becomes a barrier and stops them from branching out.
This is bad for Canada, but it’s also bad for the individual newcomers. It makes them more isolated, more sick, and less wealthy.
So why is the Trudeau government ignoring the facts, overlooking the data, and snubbing the experts on this topic?
The answer is simple. Politics.
Trudeau is catering to the demands of special interest groups who want quick and easy access to Canadian citizenship. They are rushing to turn newly arriving immigrants into voting citizens, and “reducing the barriers” to citizenship simply to earn votes and lifelong political allegiances.
There is nothing evidence-based about the Trudeau government or its decision making. Trudeau is as brazenly political as anyone before him. He is doing anything he can to get votes. It’s as simple as that.
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