Head of British Columbia (a province of Canada) Gordon Campbell, on a visit to India with a 30 member delegation, said Canada was on a path of 'ageing' and admitted there was an acute shortage of manpower in his country.
He stated that India has the youngest population and they are needed to fill the one million new jobs likely to be created, adding there was a shortfall of some 350,000 in the province.He stressed on skilled labour and the scope in rental, retail, mining and energy sectors and a two way exchange of students and teachers that was in the pipeline.
Referring to the problem of NRIs abandoning Indian brides, he noted that innocent young women are being exploited by people abusing the immigration system and that the federal government was making the problem a priority ensuring measures are taken to strengthen the immigration system.
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