Edited sentence: Despite the claim that policy was aimed at developing world-class competitors, this is difficult to reconcile with the minimal impact that an active industrial policy has had on immigration policy.Historically, this didn't happen, and the relationship between the immigration and industry-protection rules was at best ambiguous.Presumably, the nation that seeks to become the global leader in a particular industry must attract many of the most qualified talents in that field, to apply and to improve their own particular individual capital to that problem in that country.This suggests strongly that the real purpose of industrial policy was always and only protectionism, the protection of existing jobs for political gain