This is the Canada I remember. When I was 18, fresh out of school, the job market was so bad that you had to know someone to get a job at McDonald’s. Things slowly got better, but I never saw a ‘Help Wanted’ sign anywhere other than in the movies until 1995. In less than 8 years Justin Trudeau has taken us back 40 years.
Not surprised that this is the case in Mississauga; it’s saturated with immigrants.
But we were in Cornwall on Saturday and there were “help wanted” signs all over the place. And every tradesman or construction guy in these parts sing the same song: “I can’t find anyone who wants to work!”
Bingo…….and we have one immigrant working with us in commercial landscaping. Any kids we respect and enjoy that apply had a parent that didn’t coddle them.
The issue is that where the jobs are, and where the people allegedly wanting jobs are, are not the same place.
And the “immigrants” don’t want to do trades for some reason.
Near where I live in Calgary, I rarely hear English from the construction trades working residential home construction.
Yep, teams, from demo-excavate, to roofing, drywall, exterior finishes, sales agent.
Spanish and/or Portuguese?
punjabi mostly
That’s been the way here for a long time. Many years back in the day we were getting kitchen/entrance tiled and the living room and stairs finished with hardwood. Happened to have an offspring studying in eastern Europe who had sent a “Mother’s Day” card from there. Which I promptly put on the old china cabinet in the entrance.
Hardwood guys came in to check out the job, and saw one guy’s head turn sharply as he recognized the language on that card, and it wasn’t English. We explained.
BTW, the various contractors were all great.
long time problem in canada where its become a right to be born work and die on the same piece of real estate even when there are no jobs for generations. newfoundland is the prime example ,
Anybody see any white people in that line?
Sorry Jamie I think the tradesmen/construction guys are just complaining for the sake of complaining–perhaps to get more money. Back in 2018/2019, my son went in for plumbing, did his first year of plumbing in college–then was required to do his apprentice hours before he could continue on to second year. He spent the spring and summer of 2019 looking for work, literally driving to worksites around the city, introducing himself and asking if he could work with them as a plumber apprentice. He even suggested that he could work for free because he needed the hours (they declined because of Workmen’s Comp). My son was in the Army Reserves, works hard, I’ve taught him to always be respectful and always be early for work (at least half an hour–even if he has to wait at an empty worksite), he is mechanically inclined (when he was 15 I asked a buddy of mine who owned a garage if he could give him a job, which I expected to be stocking shelves and sweeping floors–he ended up working for him for two summers doing brake changes, wheel alignments, recharging air conditioning fluid, etc)–so he isn’t a shirker. He ended up having to go to university (which he hates because of all the PC crap and the useless courses he has to take) and taking computer science because he was so peeved with the hurdles of getting an apprentice position as a PLUMBER.
Remember the 90s in Saskatchewan?
It was bad. Worse than now, but Justin ain’t done yet.
A good point. The stink and stain of a trudeau lives on forever.
This arrogant little tit has managed to do something his arrogant tit father never quite accomplished: (a) kill small businesses that would traditionally have hired recent immigrants in our large urban centers, and (b) kill the trades by introducing young home-growns to the benefits of living in a welfare state.
No, I emigrated in ’83, came back in 2000 for clean air, access to wilderness, and low population density.
I remember the 90’s in Alberta, every vehicle with a Saskatchewan license plate was here.
Governments in Canada keep hiring. The total number of those employed in the public sector continues to hit a new all-time every month. For every 100 workers in the private sector there are now 27 working in the public sector, another all-time high. It’s how the Dear Leader & J-Meet role, and guarantees them millions of votes.
Now you know why, and how he keeps getting re-elected.
It’s also why this town belongs to dear leader. This is a government town through and through. The people who work here, especially those who work in the public sector… particularly in the federal government… are incapable of seeing reality other than through the rose-colored glasses provided for them by the feds.
I’m fed up with this place. The authoritarian jack-boots is just too much for me to put up with all of their 5h1t.
My house in the prairies is waiting for me. I can hardly wait.
For every 100 workers in the private sector there are now 27 working in the public sector
That means, roughly, government employee compensation plus benefits account for 75% of every private sector tax dollar collected. That doesn’t leave much for everything else the governments waste tax dollars on. And what about transfers and assistance payments. And does this 100-27 ratio include ALL employees whose paycheques come directly or indirectly from taxes? I could believe the number of government workers is even higher.
Hence Turdeauland is quickly becoming a very highly indebted nation, like the other basketcase economies of the world. Well done, Turdeau Jr. & Frau Freeland.
“For every 100 workers in the private sector there are now 27 working in the public sector”
And15 of those private sector workers are employed on a government contract. So at we can reduce it to percentages, about 67 percent of the workforce, in addition to the burden of supporting their own families, support the families of the remaining 33 percent.
“For every 100 workers in the private sector, there now 27 parasites feeding from them in the public sector”.
There, fixed it for you.
As long as they are fully jabbed, I’m fine with this.
There should be a law that states that with the exception of military personnel, no one who works for any level of government (that includes teachers), or who is receiving welfare, or who is in jail should be allowed to vote. I know it’s a pipe dream…but so are elections free of fraud.
It’s rather fitting that we’re being taken back to the Mulroney era in job hunting, as Mulroney is a good friend of the current Prime Minister and probably Justin Trudeau’s greatest admirer apart from Justin’s longtime lover Gerald Butts.
I remember the 1980’s well, layoffs in every sector and the thundering sound of the herd of Canadian corporations stampeding to move their operations to whatever third world country would have them.
I lived at the time in a city in which the chief industry was forestry based, and the economic devastation was heart breaking. They had to open new welfare offices in town to handle the workload.
The one guy I knew that prospered in that time was an iron workers foreman who made big money dismantling pulp mills and saw mills which were then shipped overseas.
Good times. Happy days are here again. Vote Trudeau.
…and do you remember who was PM in the early 80’s?
“Well, welcome to the eighties!”
But he wasn’t that much worse than the snob he replaced, when his house came tumbling down in a no-confidence vote.
Yep, remember the SOB well, and also that he was replaced by another Quebec SOB also beholden to Power Corporation, and was PM for the next 9 years.
It’s nice to blame Trudeau for everything,but he had plenty of help from Mulroney.
Until Justin came along, PET and Mulroney vied for the title of “Canada’s most destructive PM”.
Mulroney, just one of the reasons I left the party.
Thats rubbish. I drove across the country this summer and back through the northern states. Everywhere, every store, hotel, restaurant, or business had help wanted signs. They all complained either couldnt find staff or keep them. Noone knew where all the workers went. GTA must be in its own universe. But judging by how they vote, we already knew this.
every store, hotel, restaurant, or business had help wanted signs
Governments are acquiring a massive employee force, (I refuse to say “work” force), and they are not only depriving the private sector of warm bodies, they are also bidding up the salaries of an average worker, making it difficult for the private sector to compete against. Governments aren’t concerned with profits or losses, so there is in theory little constraint on governments printing money to give to its employees without any relevance to compensation based on profitability and value in the private sector. Doing so also jacks up government debt, which also crowds out private sector borrowers in the capital markets and drives up interest costs, which in turn depresses capital investment, research, and innovation in the private sector, which is the only sector that pays the bills and drives the national economy.
Excellent comment. Prescient observations.
When there is no more profit to be taxed and borrowed against the communist house of cards will fall.
You could always sell solar panels to apartment dwellers … down in the basement boiler room? And you’d be saving the planet too!
What is the real reason so many wogs are being hustled into Canada only to sleep on the streets of Toronto?
Why … other than to destroy our society, I see no other valid reason.
To vote
Same thing as J West said.
Real estate scam. Sell public lands to developers who are your bros. Instant towns. Which will of course become instant slums in five years, because those things always do.
There’s plenty of jobs. Trades and trucking come to mind. Alberta is always hiring.
Ah, yes. All those trucking jobs. There’s one waiting for you after 6-8 months of training and around $10,000.
All due, of course, to gov’t overreach & over reaction to a situation caused by an immigrant who should never have been given his class one in the first place. This, too, was couched in terms of an official gov’t response made to look like they actually were responding to the tragedy, when in fact they merely exercised further control over the populace.
When I spoke to my MLA about the local job paucity, he mentioned truck driving. I asked him if he’d loan me the 10 grand for the classes. He noted I should get a loan. I asked him what I should use for collateral, as provincial & federal gov’t covid policy had destroyed my business & my credit rating. Things got pretty quiet after that.
Yeah, those trucking jobs…
Do you actually clear $15/hr on those hauls? I’m hearing that its more like 10 to 8, if you make anything. Which could account for the number of openings.
My last full-on, over the road, trucking gig, grossed me $1200 a week for 75+ hours a week work while living in the truck. That’s $16/hour before tax. For a life not fit for a dog. It was regional, and for a smaller outfit hauling bulk commodities, but even so, not worth it by a long shot. Once you’re in that lifestyle though, it’s hard to break free.
Our local construction firm pays its dump truck and mixer drivers $26 per hour.
A double bind: Either let more unqualified migrants get class 1 licenses and risk more Humboldt disasters, or let the supply chain languish from not enough workers.
He said, on a post showing the lineup for a job at Fortino’s in Mississauga stretching nearly half a mile…
Try to get a job as a -software engineer- right now. Everybody says the market for computer engineering is Booming!!! But no, I’ve been seeing a large number of entry level jobs with 1000+ applicants.
Ever look at Linked-In? Its instructive.
Flowered Kingdom et al are in their own universe for starters. As has been pointed out by those here, help wanted signs are everywhere in small town Canada. Ah yes that’s it. the allure of the Big Smoke. Fly Over Country is not for them
With Trudeau exacerbating the problem with too many immigrants at once, dem dar city folk just don’t get it and never will. I await the asteroid.
If you want to know how Canada is doing compared to other countries, I am in the UK and my employer is struggling to fill positions at the moment. I am about to manage a new project too that will need people I am not sure I can find; we might be getting people on second jobs, and I don’t mean second jobs for those struggling to pay rent, these will be experienced airline pilots on good salaries coming in between flight duties.
My wife in her own business she started less than a year ago has run through three people in a starter position because she can’t get anyone good enough. It’s a social media company, not rocket science.
Entertainment Today Headline:
“New Cast for 1970s Reboot Announced!”
Jimmy Carter will be played by Joe Biden
Billy Carter will be played by Hunter Biden
Pierre Trudeau will be played by his step-son Justin
Russia will be played by China
China will be played by Russia
Inflation will play itself
Swine flu will be played by COVID
Global Cooling will be played by Global Warming and an exiting new cast member, Climate Extinction (nee Climate Catastrophe, nee Climate Change)
Other announcements will be made soon, but it is expected that Reagan may be played by Ron deSantis and Teddy Kennedy by Beto O’Rouke, although casting Mary Jo Kopechne may be difficult after Amber Heard pulled out recently
With youth unemployment in double digits in the early 80s things were much worse. Not surprisingly, JT’s father has the one in charge at the time. Having said that, things are going to get worse for sure.
A friend’s 24 year old son works in IT. He’s been out of a job since December 2022. He thought he had a sure thing with a recent application to work for the federal government, but mysteriously has heard nothing for weeks. My guess is that those postings are being inundated with applications so there’s suddenly lots to choose from.
Hint.
Want to work for the Feds?
Identify as black, brown, Hispanic, Chinese, etc.
No Whites Allowed!
Thousands of applicants. Thousands.
Mission Accomplished.
Import too many turd worlders.
They’re desperate when they arrive and get more desperate when they realize the streets, and welfare, arent as golden as first thought.
Life is more expensive than they ever imagined, for the basics, food and housing
Happy to take slave labour jobs for Big Corporations, Fast Food, etc.
Rinse, Repeat.
One of my kids works for a grocery store chain. Immigrants who come here for an education, (why do we do that) must have a job after graduation or get the boot. It used to stipulate that the job needed to be related to the degree, it now it’s any job. Many of his coworkers are immigrants avoiding deportation stocking shelves with their BA in international studies we subsidized
Actually, Greg, did we subsidize those foreign students in their studies? I’ve heard that they pay so much more in tuition that the unis prefer them to Canadians who pay the basic rate plus the government add-on.
that is true but their increased tuition still doesnt cover the total grand sum cost of post secondary.
l just wrapped up 10 years part time post secondary study ‘for the heck of it’ seeing as l already have a BSc. l stopped for a number of reasons including l had an ominous feeling l was going to offend someone due to my autism and sho nuff . . . . plus my boy sired 12 beautiful puppies with a tenant’s bull terrier.
l kept 2 of them. one of them his marking matched his dad, l took that as a ‘sign’. so with 3 large dogs there was zeeeero time for research papers all that reading etc.
it was fun and many benefits (rarely took more than next day for doc appt that was gold) but l would NOT recommend it for everyone.
UPS in the States just agreed to a new contract with the drivers. 170K (US) per annum including benefits. Home for dinner everyday. Company supplied brown shorts. What’s not to like?
Think I’d look good in brown.
Funny how history repeats itself. The same lies, delusional illusions, permeated Canada by Canadian government officials back in the 1950s. Post war European immigration was extremely high and encouraged. Immigrants such as Dutch miners and farmers, English electricians, Eastern Europeans, Italians and Portuguese labourers were told that the streets in Canada were paved in gold. Jobs galore. They could only dream of such opportunities to get here as fast as possible as their own countries were destroyed in war.
Only, it was a big lie.
I don’t think the immigrants back then were told the streets were paved with gold. At least none of the ones I knew.
They all expected to get ahead by working hard. And they did.
They also didn’t have governments taking half of everything they earned.
THIS! On top of shifting the education priorities for their sons from STEM to the art of fellatio.
Not so much bad economy as migrant adults hitting the ground running.. 500 000 a year.. Babies give you 18 to 24 years warning.. and yes, it can work for a while.. But sooner or later you will get behind the 8 ball and then what?..
I remember those days. During summer break it was impossible to find steady work for the summer (early 1980’s). And this was Alberta. I always ended up going to Hire A Student to do temporary one day jobs all the time. Help moving, picking garbage, mowing a lawn. That sort of thing.
“Canada is Back”
Yeah….next get ready for 22% interest.
40 years back? Hardly. Justatwit has dragged us back to the bad old days 90 years ago of the Great Depression.
Only so much work for unskilled bags o’meat to go around. Go talk to the trades…can’t find a decently skilled worker if your life depended on it and no shortage of sandwich artists shooting way too high. It’s either grow your own (3-5 years) or bring ‘em in from overseas…(1-2 years)…and half those guys from overseas and almost all of the homegrown prospects ain’t worth a toss.
A glimpse of things to come when the globalists get finished automating and eliminating as much of the work force as possible
licenced trades. tell me about it. l made a huge final last push in 2006 to get an apprenticehit started, already had the 1st year documented. l had a knack for electrical gadgets real early. etc etc.
‘wese gots no vacansieze’ the constant refrain.
l blame unions and their push to successfully limit entrants in the trades to keep wages high “oh lookie dem high payin’ skilled zhobs”.
l got 2 bachelor degrees because l did the work.
l learned how to swim finally in my mid 20s l did the work. and proceeded to do scuba diving for abt a decade. because l decided to do the work and training.
got my own place, raised a family, because l did the work.
COUNTLESS accomplishment because the key *decision* was mine, and proceeded to work at it.
but not the apprenticeshit cystem, THAT decision is up to a stranger, you have to convince a filthy T-shirt cigar chomping boss complaining how much it ‘costs’ him ignoring the fact that for instance in my 5 years as an assistant (spread out over about 12 years) EVERY TIME my stuff was inspected by Hydro authorities it passed 1st time out.
so go ahead clucking moralists, rave on and blame the TURDeau.
p.s., in 2007 after getting kicked out of the apprenticeshit intro course for doing 2 digit multiplication in my head faster that they could tap their calculators; the complaint l was ‘showing off’ l packed it in, pulled an ace out my right sleeve called aspergers, another one out my left sleeve called OCD (both documented) and successfully applied for a CPP Disability pension and 7 or 8 month later had $15,000 plopped in my account. (benfits retroactive to date of application)
the deposits have been non-stop since.
1st thing l did called up the last boss l had who had just fired me for making one phone call, and advised him he’s still paying me via I/C taxes diff is l dont gotta lift a finger.
meanwhile l had bought a ‘fixer upper’ (every friggin time l opened a box there was a problem it was a real fixer upper but l knew l could do it all) and fixed up about $20,000 in electrical enhancements over the years including motion sensor all 4 sides, a slew of GFCIs, integrated fire alarm system, double the existing circuits etc. only thing l couldnt do was change the panel so l got my old boss to do that on condition he would cut me a deal if l did part of the work.
l paid 69K for it in 2003.
last year as part of a reverse mtg it was assessed at 475K,
the electrical improvements HAD TO factor in.
but l couldnt get that godam signature. with my background in IT l could have specialized in automating systems. once out of curiosity l asked the apprentice how many bits a PLC uses in the processor “oh it uses relays” ya l know THAT but how many bits is the CPU??
didnt have a friggin clue what l was talking about.
and still l couldnt get that signature to get things started.
l ever offered to bribe a contractor $5000. that didnt work.
you got the floor now SDA, gimme all your smarminess and condescension. because THAT attitude is part of the problem. how so? the ‘quick judgement’ thing. l know what the problem was/is. l got a face like a mule and the common unwritten social rule is therefore lm stooopid. my autism delayed that conclusion but l know its true. lve been subjected to the discrimination since grade 1. (just didnt know why at the time)
p.p.s. in 2022, 70 yrs age, my most recent comprehensive blood test showed * 17 out of 19 * markers within optimum range. my plan is to live a long peaceful lazy bones life, while my days away, fishing and spoiling the dogs and plucking my Yamaha electric and taking in a live show and help the very few close friends l have and laugh at the breathtaking ignorance coming out of high schools.
and at some point cash in that 1/3 million and really have a good time.
and toss another steak on the bbq.
xyz – grew up back in the day in a “company” town where the emphasis was getting a training of some sort. There was a real push on university for those academically inclined, but there was also an equal push on getting those (and they were males back then) enough education to qualify for apprenticeships in the trades. The end result was that the local kids got the qualifications they needed to decent jobs, and jobs for which they were suited.
Fast forward, and the emphasis became solely on college or university degrees, with the trades being serious denigrated as a proper career for anyone. The result has been that very few Canadian kids for whom the trades were a natural career have been able to pursue same (apprenticeships being few and far between) while Canada has instead looked to Europe (which has a robust apprenticeship policy) to supply the necessary tradesmen. Not to denigrate the immigrants; they work hard and are proficient. But I do wish there were more opportunities for young Canadians to become the tradesmen (and tradeswomen) they were meant to be.
Actually, Greg, did we subsidize those foreign students in their studies? I’ve heard that they pay so much more in tuition that the unis prefer them to Canadians who pay the basic rate plus the government add-on.