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In this skypecast Eric discusses the current oil and gas boom in Alberta and British Columbia and the resulting demand for engineers and skilled tradespeople. Eric gives an overview of the requirement for a Labour Market Opinion and the processing times involved in getting a work permit for Canada. He also discusses business visas for Canada and how to go about emigrating to Canada as a performer or professional athlete.
Alberta will pay millions to pick the world’s brains
From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail
CALGARY
— At a time when Canadian research budgets are being slashed, Alberta is using its financial clout to scour the globe for scientific “superstars” who will be offered $20-million each to conduct research in the province for the next decade.“We’re looking for the very best of international-calibre investigators,” said Kevin Keough, head of the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research, which is spearheading the richest award of its kind in Canada, to be announced today. “I think we happen to be in a good position at this point to be able to recruit some stars to Canada.
This really shows that the increased exploration and development of oil and gas has benefits that go beyond the world of energy. The Heritage Foundation has benefited from oil royalties which are now being used to help fund world class research in Alberta by being able to fund scientists at world class rates.
Oil industry plays catchup during lull
Filling backlog of skilled workers long-term project
CALGARY
- After a record year of growth and energy prices, oil and gas companies say the expected slowdown in the pace of activity in 2007 will only give them an opportunity to focus on hiring more workers to catch up with pent-up demand.“We have a structural problem,” says David Fulton, vice president of human resources at Shell Canada Ltd. “I do not think the shortage is going to go away any time soon,
and that was one of the big debates 18 months ago.”The industry has been so overwhelmed by the incredible need for everything from oilfield service technicians to geophysicists and engineers that any slight moderation in activity will simply allow the industry to catch its collective breath and continue the hiring frenzy.
“It’s hot all over,” Mr. Fulton says. “There are very few cold skills, or even lukewarm ones anymore.”
According to the article above there is a continual demand for skilled trades in the oil and gas sector. However, according to the memo on Occupations Under Pressure in Alberta and a similar release for similar ones in British Columbia, there are many related occupations to the natural resources industry that still require to be filled. Even general construction labour has to be filled and that can sometimes mean earning around 80-100 thousand dollars (Canadian) per year simply by being young and strong and willing to work hard in adverse climatic conditions from time to time.
Surging demand for skilled workers keeps Alberta college in a perpetual expansion
If there’s one thing everyone seems to agree on, it’s that there is no single solution to Alberta’s desperate labour situation. Nearly 400,000 jobs will be created in Alberta in the next 10 years, but only 300,000 new workers will enter the labour market at the current rate.
Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in Edmonton produces 17% of national tradespersons and 50% of all those located in Alberta. The high demand of skilled trades and eventual shortfall of locally grown young Canadians entering this sector of the workforce means that the skilled trades will have to be found from overseas.
Toronto based Certified Canadian Immigration Consultant Eric Katz hosted skypecast discussing skilled worker emigration to Canada and labour market opinion for skilled work visas.
Eric discusses the oil and gas boom in Western Canada and the implications of the new Canada Immigration Minister Diane Findlay formerly of the Dept of Human Resources now known as Service Canada.
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Mr. Dion attempted to cut short any suggestion that the moves would be perceived as anti-Alberta.He pointed out that former premiers Peter Lougheed and Ralph Klein, as well as Reform party founder Preston Manning, have all called for a move toward green technology.
Mr. Lougheed has called it a “major wrong†that, under the current rules, Alberta taxpayers subsidize multi-year capital projects for an industry so lucrative that it has sent the cost of living skyrocketing in the province.
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