中英对照：大陆新移民：加拿大让我一家的生活发生了翻天覆地的变化
Chinese immigrant: Canada has turned my life around
来源: 大中报 南茜(Nancy Jin)
50岁出头的加国新移民贾先生对加拿大充满感激之情。贾先生一家于2016年通过保姆移民计划从中国的河南省移民到卡尔加里，自此与许多新移民一样在加国开始了移民之旅。经过几年的艰苦创业，他们一家在加拿大的Fort McMurry定居下来，女儿也在大学读上了热门专业。贾先生说加拿大是个移民的好地方，当初来加国移民的决定是做对了。贾先生在接受媒体采访时表示：“在加拿大，你住的越久，就越喜欢这个地方！”
As a new immigrant in Canada in his early 50s, Mr. Jia has a lot to thank for this country. Jia’s family immigrated from He Nan, China, to Calgary in 2016 through the live-in caregiver program. Since then, they’ve started a new life in Canada like many newcomers. After a few years of blood, sweat, and tears, the family settled well in Fort McMurry, and Jia’s daughter was now pursuing a popular degree in university. Believing Canada was a great place to put down roots, Jia said he made the right decision to immigrate his family to this country. “Canada is a place where the longer you live, the more you like it,” said Jia in a media interview.
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加拿大对贾先生来说是一个陌生而遥远的国家，在这里他没有任何亲人和朋友。但贾先生却在加国看到了亲情，找到了归属感。在他一家的移民过程中，贾妻的前雇主，卡尔加里的一个当地家庭给他们提供了大力帮助，使其移民申请得到顺利批准。这一经历让贾先生一家亲身体验了加国人士的热情慷慨以及对外来移民劳工的平等和尊重。更让贾先生心存感激的是，他女儿本在中国三线城市根本看不到升学和就业希望，但目前却在加拿大这个第二故乡接受着国际一流的大学教育。“加拿大让她看到了在中国看不到的梦想和希望!”
Mr. Jia has found a deep sense of connection and belonging in this remote and distant country that he had no previous ties to whatsoever. The family benefited tremendously from the help offered by Ms. Jia’s former employer, a local Canadian family, as she applied for her family’s immigration status. The respect and caring attitude from the local Canadians has impressed him and touched his heart, allowing him to experience firsthand Canadians’ outpouring support and generosity towards an immigrant worker. Mr. Jia also felt deeply grateful that his daughter, who had faced a poor education and job prospect in the third-tier city of China, was now enjoying first-class post-secondary education in this adopted country. “In Canada, she has found hopes and dreams that never existed in China.”
加拿大几百万的移民都与贾先生一样对加国充满感激。他们感谢加国赋予移民的平等机会，让他们得以充分发挥潜力，展现才华，使许多新移民在这片温馨的土地，他们的第二故乡上实现了他们的加国梦。加拿大较高的移民幸福指数和当地居民对移民的较高接受程度使其在西方世界中脱颖而出，而其种族平等和多元文化的价值观也使其有别于被民粹和民族主义撕裂的美国。加拿大每年接受40万人的大规模移民政策将为其成为21世纪的移民大国铺平了道路。
Millions of immigrants in Canada share the Jia family’s feelings. They appreciate the equal opportunity Canada has offered for immigrants to explore their full potentials and have discovered their Canadian dream in this welcoming land they now call home. Canada stands out internationally in the happiness that immigrants themselves report and the general public’s positive attitudes towards their foreign-born compatriots. Canada’s widely embraced value of diversity and equality has set it apart from the US and the Western world torn apart by the rise of populist nationalism. Canada’s mass immigration policy targeting an annual 400,000 newcomers has paved its path to becoming the migration magnet of the 21 Century.
在向世界各地移民打开大门的同时，加拿大还力争为国外专业人士在加国就业扫清障碍。安省政府最近提议取消加国工作经验要求的法案，使国外培养的专业人士更容易获得加国受监管行业的专业执照。最近一项研究发现，与加国出生人士相比，新移民的劳动市场参与率有所提升，且在某些方面甚至好过加国当地人士。
Canada has made great strides in breaking down job barriers for foreign-born professionals as it opens its doors widely to people from around the world. The Ontario government has proposed legislation that would remove requirements for Canadian work experience, making it easier for some foreign-trained workers to become licensed in regulated professions. A recent study has found an improved job participation rate for new immigrants and an even better labor market outcome than their Canadian-born counterparts.
加国在选举政治领袖过程中能跨越族裔界限，不以来源国，出生地论人才，这更是加国族裔平等，多元文化精神的真实写照。多年以来，国外出生的加国人士在加拿大的政治领导层享有越来越大的影响力和权力。卡尔加里和埃德蒙顿最近刚刚选出了两名作为第一代移民的市长，他们获得了大多数与其族裔和文化背景不同的加国人士的选票。加国新民主党领导人驵勉诚曾作为第一名加国亚裔竞选加国总理，在加国政坛上为种族平等和族裔多元化树立了里程碑。
The Canadians’ attitude of embracing true diversity is no more evident than their ability to see beyond racial differences as they elect their political representatives. Over the years, foreign-born Canadians have gained growing power and influence in Canadian political leadership. Two first-generation immigrants have won the recent mayoral race in Calgary and Edmonton, getting votes from most Canadian citizens with different racial and cultural backgrounds. The NDP leader Jagmeet Singh’s run for PM as the first Asian Canadian in the recent federal election has set a milestone for equality and diversity on the Canadian political landscape.
贾先生一家的加国移民之旅虽非一帆风顺，但却让他们体验到了一场非凡的人生经历，让他们的生活出现了翻天覆地的变化。贾先生说：“只要你肯干肯吃苦，来自中国经济底层的移民是可以在加拿大看到光明前景的！”
The immigrant journey in Canada wasn’t a smooth one for Jia and his family, but it was a remarkable experience that turned their life around. “So long as you can eat bitter and endure hardship, an immigrant from the bottom of the economic ladder in China can have their life changed significantly for the better in Canada,” said Mr. Jia.
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