Pierre Poilievre has also said Canada should cancel the program with exceptions for difficult-to-fill agricultural jobs
There’s no such thing. A job role that’s hard to fill either requires specialized skills that few people have, or the employer is unwilling to pay a reasonable wage.
And while harvesting and farming require a lot of skills, it’s something that can be trained on the job. It’s not surgery. A novice can come in and still be useful while they build other skills.
But if we’re not willing to do that and instead need to import indentured servants, I’m not sure how to respond.
Agree. Agriculture is not open rocket surgery. It doesn’t take long to train.
Not saying that it’s easy, as it’s super labour intensive.
The challenge with agriculture is the limited timeframe, which does rather gel well with a temporary work crew that follows the harvest north and returns to their home country afterwards. However, they should always be paid appropriately.
I worked at an office job for a big, well known company in Brampton, “top blah blah employers” sort of thing. Their entire IT department was outsourced to a company that entirely takes TFW money
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.
Carney’s response was that businesses’ number one concern is tariffs and their second one is access to the TFW program. I got pretty mad hearing that stated as an uncritical need.
He is right. I used to live in Canada. It’s a great country.
But the extreme immigration rate - one of the highest in the world - had seriously damaging effects on housing and the job market. It’s not good for immigrants and it’s not good for canadians. The only winners are scummy landlords and big corporations. It’s time to slow down.
Water is good for you. But if you drink 10 bottles of water, you are going to be sick.
As a counterpoint I offer this article:
Immigrants taking jobs is only one half of the equation. They also need food, shelter, transportation, entertainment, etc and provide the demand that is the driver of economic growth. The reason people aren’t feeling that is because, just the same as us, the vast majority of the value created by immigrants is going to the top 0.1%. Canada’s best bet for the future would be increasing immigration even further than under Trudeau combined with redistributive economic policy and a public housing authority that doesn’t leave it to the whims of the private market to build enough housing for everyone. Canada has plenty of empty land, we should be building entire new cities.
Where’d you go?
The problem is most of the immigrants target one city to live in, and that city has been poorly managed on infrastructure for 50 years.
