If you took the time to read the Hamilton Community Foundation’s annual Vital Signs report to the community — if you haven’t, you should — you couldn’t help but come away with a few key impressions. […] On immigration, Hamilton’s numbers are going the wrong way. We increasingly need immigrants to grow and sustain population and fill growing gaps in the labour market. But the number of new immigrants to Hamilton decreased significantly last year, and it remains very difficult for immigrants to find suitable employment. So they leave, take jobs that don’t optimize their contribution or are unemployed. Good work is being done on the ground in this area, often by stakeholder members of the Hamilton Immigration Partnership Council.
http://www.thespec.com/opinion/editorial/article/810737–hamilton-lags-on-immigration-and-inequity