Don’t know how it works in Brandon’s USSA, but in True-dolt’s Canaduh, employers get tax breaks from FedGouvCan for hiring immigrants, be they professionals or be they labourers at Lowe’s or Home Depot. If you are a white, Christian male, you are SOL for employment in PRC (Politically Repressive Canada). IF you have enough equity in your house, you might get a business loan to become self-employed. Again, if you are ‘old stock English Canadian’, expect FedGouvCan to maximize the hurdles you have to vault, just to get your business started.
True-dolt borrowing from Auric Goldfinger, “No, Mr. ‘Old Stock Canadian’, I don’t expect you to succeed, I expect you to die!”
AFAIK, here in the U.S., employers receive tax credits for hiring veterans, ex-felons, and welfare recipients. This probably only helps them get hired for minimum wage jobs, though. I don't know whether it applies for non-citizens.
Including Quebecers?