Advocates concerned over scheduled end of Canada's caregiver pilot programs | TFC News Canada
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This coming June 17, the Home Child Care Provider Pilot and the Home Support Worker Pilot, which started five years ago, will officially end.
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These two pilot programs gave qualified caregivers the option to bring their family with them to Canada and apply for permanent residence after one year of work experience.
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With the programs now coming to a close, the Vancouver Committee for Domestic Workers and Caregivers' Rights is concerned
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that caregivers who came in as temporary foreign workers will lose their pathway to permanent residency.
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Ang mga kababayan natin, mga Pilipino, ay maapektuhan yung mga nasa sa temporary foreign workers program sila.
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Dahil nga yung tungkol sa language requirement at saka yung education requirements at saka yung kanilang one-year experience.
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Julie Jesta says the required postdocs,
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secondary education and high language test scores have made it nearly impossible for potentially thousands of Filipino caregivers to apply for permanent residence.
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Yung kinakabahan at saka merong limited na oras lang yung mga exam. So talagang mahirap para sa kanila.
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Jesta adds that because they are unable to overcome this obstacle, many care workers put up with abuses from their employers because they need them for their LMIA and work permit.
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Para sila maging eligible o para sila ay kuhanan ulit ng LMIA ng amo niya nila,
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ay kailangan silang sunod na katulad.
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Tulad ng kung bata ang kanilang inaalagaan pero pinapaghuga sila ng sasakyan, gagawa sila ng gardening,
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natrabaho sila sa kanilang bahay ng 12-16 hours.
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Migrant workers advocate Darla Tomeldan says these care workers have already earned their permanent residency through their years of working here.
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She hopes government will be more flexible and allow a lower passing mark on the language test.
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For me, it's heartbreaking.
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They've been here six, seven years. I mean, they've earned it. They've earned the PR already, right?
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So I'm hoping they have, like the last time, they had an interim pathway.
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At the same time, Tomeldan, who is also a licensed immigration consultant,
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says that these care workers can also consider other pathways that will make their dream of permanent residency easier to achieve.
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Like express entry, baka pwede ka doon. But if your score is low, right?
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Then find ways to improve it for your English or more schooling or, you know, there's maraming namang programs ang immigration.
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There's like more than a hundred programs. So it depends on, or you can go to another province and see what they have available.
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Jessa says the government has not given any hint on its plans for a new program that will replace the caregiver pilots.
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I wrote this letter to Prime Minister Trudeau.
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But because there will always be a need for care workers,
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and in Canada, Jessa urged caregivers to write to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
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and Immigration Minister Mark Miller to press them to give them their permanent resident status now.
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Rowena Papasin, ABS-CBN News, Vancouver.
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