Canadian Politics Today

I have consistently supported investing more resources into the whole immigration process. That however is not what we get from Leitch and friends, she is about "Canadian Values" and some dumb screening that will accomplish squat. Those are simple minded points designed to stir up emotions and not deal with the real issues. She is out to get votes, not address immigration.

You didn't address my point. Why can you not get a job at McDonalds without an interview? Why should we, in effect 'hire' someone we can't fire no matter what, without at least giving them an interview? Do you think job interviews are similarly pointless? The federal government certainly believes in them. Every process I've ever been through had an interview, usually before a panel. Then if you got into the pool there'd be another interview with the hiring manager. I've been on those panels. I've been the hiring manager. What was I looking for as a hiring manager? I knew every person in the pool had already been deemed to be qualified to do the job. I wanted to know what kind of a person they were, to try and decide if they had drive and motivation, if they would fit in with the group, if they were open minded and would do what needed to be done without someone looking over their shoulders all the time. Were the interviews useless? Nope. I considered them a very valuable tool in deciding which of the people in the pool to bring into our group.

Once we accept someone as an immigrant we're pretty much stuck with them. It's virtually impossible to get rid of them. That definitely merits an in-depth interview to see what kind of person they are.