Winnipeggers invited to take Canada Challenge on July 1
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If you have ancestors who immigrated to Canada, would they be allowed to settle here today?
For the second Canada Day in a row, the Canada Challenge is giving people the chance to see if their ancestors could today meet stringent new criteria set by Citizenship and Immigration Canada.
The Migrant Worker Solidarity Network and Migrante Manitoba are once again setting up a booth in Osborne Village on July 1 from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. beside the Gas Station Theatre. Passersby will be able to complete the Canada Challenge quiz to see whether their ancestors would be admitted to Canada now based on the stricter immigration requirements.
The grandmother of award-winning singer-songwriter Romi Mayes and the grandfather of former citizenship judge and president of the National Association of Japanese Canadians Art Miki would both have been denied entry to Canada, Mayes and Miki discovered when they took the quiz last year.
Stricter financial, language and educational requirements are moving Canada towards an immigration policy where only the wealthy and highly educated can achieve permanent residency and citizenship, quiz organizers say.
“The desperate need for other workers — meat cutters, construction workers, factory workers, agricultural work, restaurant and hospitality workers, low-wage health workers — is increasingly being filled by temporary workers,” said Thomas Novak with the Migrant Worker Solidarity Network. “Guest workers,” he said, “find the dream of becoming permanent residents and citizens to be more and more unattainable.”
