For example, on average the number of people applying
for every job advertised publicly in 2015 might, for the sake of argument, be
300. If this is still the case in 5 years, 10 years, 20 years etc. from now,
there will be no improvements in the situation for “working” immigrants if all
other things are equal. And that is what will happen, if the question of
economic development in Canada, such as to create sufficient jobs for everybody
who wants one, continues to be ignored in the manner and in the way described
above, based on the popular disinformation already referred to.
In April 2003 Paul Swinwood, then-President of the then-Software
Human Resources Council, quoted a
range of 300 to 800. This was after the high tech
“crash” that started in late 2000/early 2001.
Some software developers are also professional
engineers, so the issue cannot be avoided on the “grounds” that no software
developer can be an engineer or vice-versa.
And that range of 300 to 800 applied to a period long before the financial “crash” starting in 2008, the Nortel bankruptcy and other adverse events since 2003.