LILLEY: Why are Liberals expanding temporary foreign worker program? High unemployment, a jobs crisis for young Canadians and yet the Liberals are pushing ahead to broaden it
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/why-are-liberals-expanding-temporary-foreign-worker-program
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Because exploiting slave labour at the expense of your constituents is part of the neo liberal way
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Typical ragebait headline
>increase the allowable share of low-wage temporary foreign workers from 10% to 15% of their workforce in eligible rural regions.
>provinces will need to opt in for employers to be able to take advantage of the program.
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They’re not? The population is shrinking as is the number of [work permit holders](https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/reports-statistics/statistics-open-data/immigration-stats/students-workers.html).
The farmers i know could not exist without their foreign workers . Show me kids today who want to pick strawberries or blueberries? The young men & women that come from (mainly) Mexico are so appreciative of their jobs. They are paid well, treated with respect and become apart of the farmers family.
Because they are owned by the big corporations. They don’t give 2 Fs about the common folks.
Our current economic system cannot survive if it has to pay people a living wage and treat them like human beings.
This is what Liberal politicians always do…they’re all smoke and mirrors (especially the secret Conservatives like Carney). Remember that next time you vote.
Because people keep voting for them
Because we need workers willing to do the jobs needed to feed us.
Hi, easy to explain. Young Canadians aren’t willing to work manual labor jobs. end.
Because the Liberals don’t care about Canadians. They care about party power and too many Canadians don’t care and would rather bury their heads in the sand than make a choice for change.
Lolll stop being naive and think that any of the major parties actually give a sht about average Joes, they’re owned by their donors, aka. The rich!
Because their donors wanting, and because people voted for them after they ran the country into the ground and continue to do so. So they know they can do whatever they want, and people will keep voting for them.
In my area , there were several restaurants , hotels and convenience stores that were reducing hours and struggling to find employees. Foreign workers have been a godsend for those businesses and have helped to invigorate the community as many have stayed, started families and now are buying their own homes and businesses. It has helped school enrolment and church attendance. Some community members think that foreign workers are taking jobs from locals but local people generally have not shown interest in service industry jobs preferring jobs in the oil industry ,trades or professional services.
I will never understand why voters looked at a Goldman Sachs banker and thought to themselves “he’s a guy who’s going to make life decent for the average Canadian!”
They are not. The article is misleading.
They are “reducing” the total number of temporary workers through a countrywide cap. It’s going down 2 years in a row.
They just increased the allowable percentage of temporary workers in rural regions. Rural employers still have to use the people within the existing cap, which is going down every year.
The article also conveniently lists what the Liberals did up to 2022 (during the post-covid worker crunch) regarding temporary workers and does not mention any of the cuts they introduced after 2023.
Canadian oligarchs and corporations are now addicted to the cheap, easily abused foreign labour. Hundreds of millions are poured by those parties into the Liberals’ election campaign, MSM advertising, and smart marketing. They are paid off, and the Liberals are getting re-elected again and again.
Because they want to create a renter class and suppress wages. Instead of allowing either:
A. Wages to rise with demand or
B. Increasing manufacturing capablities with machinery and increased energy production
They want a low wage class of people who cannot aquire assets yet depend on current asset holders to provide essential services.
GOOD QUESTION.
This is for rural work which is exactly what the program should be for. That and skilled work we can’t fill. Not for Tim Hortons in Edmonton.
Lilley would be the first to defend this if the CPC did this because it benefits rural farm owners.
Because business was complaining. The unemployed youth live in the cities, not where the jobs are. AFAIK this is more a matter of them slowing the cuts than of increasing – instead of cutting from 20 % to 10% immediately, they’re adding a year at 15% in the middle.
Because they do not give a fuck about you.
Because 👏🏻they 👏🏻don’t 👏🏻care 👏🏻about 👏🏻 Canadians 👏🏻
Because they convinced all of you that they had changed after a decade in governance by replacing Trudeau with his stated preferred successor and a year later you’re all still defending them tooth and nail for things you had lambasted them for only a year prior
Tim Hortons and Uber-eats have the lobbyists to entertain politicians between elections. Those donuts don’t get made and the QSR meals don’t get delivered by themselves. TFWs tend to work cheaper.
Because franchise owners love it and they lobby.
They also have no intention of fixing the French language PR stream despite those candidates requiring ONE HUNDRED fewer points to qualify for PR. The system has obviously strayed from selecting the best candidates. And they’re perfectly fine with it.
Meanwhile Canada can’t retain its best people and its entrepreneurs, and has ZERO plan to do something about it.
It became the country of cheap labour, freeloaders, and scammers.
Why wouldn’t they? The voters rewarded the party responsible for the increase in TFWs with another term