A Canadian consultancy with a 50 year track record in the immigration trades worker sector. Experience with blue collar immigration allows us to understand both the problems and solutions of this vital economic sector. Since 1975, we have neither requested nor received money from any government. We do not compromise our clients. We can speak truth to power. Understanding the problems The problem started in 1986 when government decided that it could manage a series of visa programs to assure the 1% of population target required to maintain pension solvency. Every federal government economic immigrant program since 1986 has failed. Canada prioritized visas for professionals, white collar workers and the wealthy. Unfortunately, the Canadian economy has been too weak to retain well educated, wealthy immigrants. Most have left seeking better opportunities. While planning for a “knowledge based economy” immigrant programs ignored the building and sustaining of Canada’s physical infrastructure. They ignored the role of well paid tradespersons sustaining pension plans. They ignored blue collar workers with a proven commitment to Canada. Canada increasingly failed to assure that refugee selection would produce productive workers. Concurrently, Canada failed to train blue collar workers. Canada’s failure to meet the visa needs of trades employers led directly to the government ignoring the creation of multibillion dollar organized crime trafficking networks providing Canadian industry with millions of workers, over a million of whom remain in Canada. Understanding the solutions After 50 years, Canada is getting a grip on blue collar immigration. Canada is now the global leader in well considered blue collar immigration and refugee selection policies. The initial challenge will be to give the policies time to mature without being destroyed by fraud or trafficking. The deeper challenge will be to avoid interests with an agenda to flood cities with low cost workers.