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2009 showed key differences between many indicators of employment quality of immigrants and non-immigrants. Salaries received by immigrant employees were generally lower, while temporary and part-time employment was more common. However, employment quality indicators for immigrants who came to Canada over 10 years ago we close to those of employees born in Canada.
In 2009, compared to Canadian-born employees, working immigrants 25 to 54 years of age (especially those who immigrated later, were younger and had a higher level of education) were often employed by smaller companies and tended to be in a variety of professional groups.
Despite the differences between many employment quality indicators, the number of immigrants working more than one job was close to that of Canadian-born workers. Additionally, the indicators for flexible and part-time employment as well as employment training indicators were almost the same for immigrant and non-immigrant workers.
In 2009, 5.2% of both immigrant and non-immigrant workers held more than one job or worked night shifts. There were no known differences based on the period of immigration. 9.7% of immigrants were temporarily employed, while the percentage of temporarily employed Canadian-born workers was 8.3%. Only 7.2% of workers who immigrated over 10 years ago were employed temporarily; evidently, this number is lower than that of Canadian-born workers.


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The Conservative Party has yet again secured the support of the Liberal opposition on an issue previously strongly disputed by the Liberals. This time the issue at hand is the immigration reform. In an attempt to avoid provoking an untimely election, the Liberal Party was forced to accept the propositions of the Harper government that it publicly rejected.