CNC Receives Money In ESL Funding Switch
Prince George, B.C. – Post-secondary institutions in B.C. are getting $10.5 million for the transition of English as a Second Language programs to a new funding system administered by the federal government.
The Advanced Education Ministry says the one-time funding is part of a transition plan the ministry has developed with public post-secondary institutions and the federal government. The funding will help institutions most impacted by the federal government's decision to end the Canada-B.C. Immigration Agreement effective April 1st of this year.
The funding will be distributed to the 17 public institutions that deliver ESL programs. The College of New Caledonia receives $77,000.
Cancellation of the Canada-B.C. Immigration Agreement changes the way ESL is delivered in BC. Citizenship and Immigration Canada will fund ESL programs directly through contracts it is currently negotiating with not-for-profit agencies and a limited number of post-secondary institutions.
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It has always astounded me that the Canadian taxpayer funds ESL. Like, if you cannot speak, read or write the English language you are totally unemployable, so how do they even get to emigrate here in the first place?
Taxpayers should not have to pay for immigrants’ trying to learn English. The Chinese mining companies that hired Mandarin speaking Chinese under the Temp. Foreign Workers Harper govt program havw no interest in teaching Canadian citizen job applicants Mandarin.
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