Canada is seeking tens of thousands of Irish worker to fill a wide range of jobs, the Canadian Ambassador to Ireland announced last week.
The country is seeking to fill a labor shortage caused by a strong economy, massive infrastructure projects and booming fisheries, mining, oil and natural gas industries.
"I'm hearing numbers like between 30,000 and 40,000 in construction alone," Ambassador Loyola Hearn told the Irish Independent.
This year, all 5,000 holiday work visas open to anyone between the ages of 18 and 35, were quickly snapped up. Immigration officials have increased the quota to 5,350 for 2012.
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The Canadian embassy held a jobs fair at Croke Park in Dublin last weekend focusing on job opportunities in the four Atlantic provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island. There is also a huge demand for workers in the western provinces, including British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Hearn says there will be more job fairs to come.
"We've surpassed the US now with emigration and are second behind Australia," he said.
The level of emigration and business between Canada and Ireland is such that the embassy is spearheading a campaign to establish regular direct flights between the two countries, he added.
The embassy -- along with the Dublin Airport Authority, Failte Ireland, Dublin City Council and Irish-Canadian business and community organizations -- is developing a business plan it hopes will result in one of the major airlines opening up a direct link in the near future.
It is estimated that around 10,000 Irish have already relocated to Canada over the past two years.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.RedlanLlib | Nov 21, 2011, 10:03 AM EST
NYCsheridan: Just go back to driving your car with fuel from Middle East oil...I am sure their environmental policies and human right policies help protect their people and the environment...Hypocrites...
deirdrekeohane | Nov 21, 2011, 09:58 AM EST
Do your homework for sure, these are pretty tough jobs advertised, my poor old dad ended up in Uranium city!(says it all),where I was born. Dad died of cancer at 74..hmmmm?
merefalow | Nov 21, 2011, 09:08 AM EST
yes then what happens when the economies go wrong and there is no work, and you have millions of immigrants taking the jobs of the indigenous population,like in the uk.. brilliant..
michaelidaho | Nov 20, 2011, 09:57 PM EST
A major city in the Atlantic provinces or British Columbia might work out for a little while. I can not imagine any young Irish adapting to either Saskatchewan or Alberta. Not much going on and you will be freezing your arses off for at least seven months of the year (November through May).
GeorgeDillon | Nov 20, 2011, 01:35 PM EST
All this at the same time as Ireland is urgently seeking thosuands of Pakistani and Indian immigrants!
LoyalCitizen | Nov 20, 2011, 11:48 AM EST
With the amount of unemployed Americans these jobs really do not exist.
Springfield9 | Nov 20, 2011, 10:11 AM EST
It looks like what the IRB couldn't do in 1867 is happening now. A bit late but still good.
donal1951 | Nov 20, 2011, 09:56 AM EST
My advice is simply make sure where the job is, how far it is from the nearest city and how cold it gets. Otherwise, Canada is a great country in which to live and raise a family, and remember in Quebec and a part of the Maritimes, French is the No. 1 language.
NYCsheridan | Nov 20, 2011, 09:32 AM EST
Ya, go on up to Canada, lads, work in the filthy tar sands pits and help destroy the planet.
Towngate | Nov 20, 2011, 08:59 AM EST
Great news for Ireland from Canada,of course. ~ Perhaps Canada should lead the way in allowing this immigration on condition that the Irish Government allows its Citizens to retain their Domestic Voting Rights until such time as they become Naturalised Canadians..