B.C. Premier David Eby says the temporary foreign worker program should "be cancelled or significantly reformed" because the province can't have an immigration system that takes young people's jobs, while filling up homeless shelters and food banks.
Question: Has Mr. Eby asked the “young people” in question whether they actually want these specific jobs, a lot of which don’t pay enough to live on? This has to go along with an effort to make the minimum wage a living wage, or there will still be people filling the homeless shelters and food banks—it’s just that they’ll have jobs, too.
About half of temporary foreign workers in Canada are high skilled workers. These are programs employers use to pay lower wages by having leverage over their workers. They exploit international students who graduate and then get these jobs on TFW visas in place of Canadian residents. Employers gain their leverage by exploiting the fact that if a TFW gets fired they lose their right to stay in the country.
Question: Has Mr. Eby asked the “young people” in question whether they actually want these specific jobs, a lot of which don’t pay enough to live on? This has to go along with an effort to make the minimum wage a living wage, or there will still be people filling the homeless shelters and food banks—it’s just that they’ll have jobs, too.
About half of temporary foreign workers in Canada are high skilled workers. These are programs employers use to pay lower wages by having leverage over their workers. They exploit international students who graduate and then get these jobs on TFW visas in place of Canadian residents. Employers gain their leverage by exploiting the fact that if a TFW gets fired they lose their right to stay in the country.