Allowing a million foreign students into the country cost Canadian jobs and wages, Bank of Canada research shows. The latest study confirmed a 2022 employment department report that foreign labour had a “significant” impact in some sectors: “They accounted for a larger share of workers in low skilled occupations, replacing Canadian born workers.”
High School and University kids can’t get jobs this summer, one of the worst on record for job availability for that age group. Alberta needs to take control of it’s immigration.
Not just summer jobs. Canadian university students are unable to find part time jobs during the school months. One of my kids spent months trying to get a part time job in the city without getting a single call back.
This inability to find a summer or part time job does seem to be a problem in cities more than smaller communities. Young workers in the small town near me do not have a problem finding a job. Area businesses hire local workers, except during the fall harvest period when TFWs are hired for a few months.
Foreign born have room for improvement when it comes to driving and English language skills. Yet they get the jobs!
I have never heard a brain surgeon complain about foreigners stealing his job.
The problem with immigrants is that they work too hard and steal our jobs and they don’t work and steal our welfare.
Can’t find a job? Go look in the mirror. (Hint: the fault is not with the mirror.)
I thinks there more to the story than Canadian youth not being good enough to get a job. DEI is part of the problem. There is also cases were foreign workers are being exploited by their employers, which is difficult for employers to get away with when hiring Canadians. I know older folks like to blame young people but even the bank of Canada is saying that flooding low skill workers into Canada has created this problem. A 14% unemployment rate for young Canadian workers is not a good economic, social or political policy.
will e-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y shut the blazes up until Canaduhians stop voting Liberal. then maybe we can see what else is behind this lemming nation dashing towards the future cliff whilst praising Marx Carnage.
it, ahem, ‘gets boring’.
Considering this site is one dedicated to discussing political topics, I’m not sure “shut up” about politics is going to happen. Places like the CBC where there’s no comments allowed might be a better fit for you.
Every business that hired a Student Visa as a worker should be fined big time.
Then remove that tax payer incentive to higher non-taxpayer foreign workers.
I recall the students are permitted to work 24 hours per week (which may have been increased). I blame the Liberal government.
“They accounted for a larger share of workers in low skilled occupations, replacing Canadian born workers.”
That is my no shit Sherlock quote of the week.
Foreign workers displace Canadian born workers and also suppress wages. The solution is to make hiring foreign workers more expensive than hiring Canadian workers. A foreign worker surcharge or tax of some sort. Not a perfect solution but it should decrease the incentive to bring in foreigners instead of hiring Canadians.
So the government should work AGAINST their entire INTENT for bringing all those foreigners here in the first place? Which is to replace the population of palefaces?
Not. Gonna. Happen.
The federal government has shown they don’t give a damn about the Canadian youth unemployment issue. I wonder if provincial governments have any ability to incentivize businesses to hire young Canadians instead of foreign workers.
SDA highlighted a business in Meadow Lake, Sask that fired Canadian workers and replaced them with foreign workers. Did the provincial government have the authority to investigate and intervene in that situation?
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/12/22/more-pavilions-at-no-frills/
LOL do tell LCB, *who* is gonna be da whuns makin da roool changes udder dan da LIEberals who gain power by NOT implementing said rule changes?
The provinces might be able to incentivize hiring young Canadian workers. You might consider using something more like English to communicate. Otherwise I’ll assume you’re just a troll.
Why would you bring in a million students during a covid lock-down?
Votes?
Tis the the teachings of the Great Canoeist.
Let no disaster pass without taking Liberal advantage.
Especially one you concoct.
At my local Home Depot, the staff are exclusively people from India- I do not mind, they are pleasant, eager to help you and show up everyday for work.
It is sad, that Canadian First Nations (or whatever they are calling themselves now) have such a “loose attachment to the workplace” – which is HR speak for sometimes they show up and most of the time they do not.
As for summer employment for university students, I was part of the boomer generation, there were more of us than there were jobs. Fortunately, I lucked into working at a secretarial temp agency in Ottawa and I was relief staff for government employees who went on summer vacation.
My “brother from another mother” drove tourist buses in Niagara Falls – it was a 12 hour day/7 day a week job and you were only paid tips, no salary. He did make $ 10,000 in tips working from mid-April to back to school in September and then would work Saturday/Sundays in September until Canadian Thanksgiving. $ 10,000 for 4.5 months of work in the early 70’s was a “lot of money”.
one home depot near me has mostly east indians , i havent had help loading wood since covid , save once when they sent me a pretty young girl with pink flowers embroidered on her “work” boots. She managed one treated 4x4x8 before heading out of the yard.
this is from a clueless baby boomer who never had to compete against the 3rd world for jobs
I think what they’re saying is that they’ve met some very nice foreign workers. What they’re missing is that these very nice foreign workers are preventing Canadian young people from getting entry level jobs. Without entry level jobs on their resume, it will be difficult for Canadian youth to get permanent careers that wiil allow them to buy a home and start a family. That’s a problem.
The solution is to go back to limiting foreign worker numbers and restricting the program to only a few types of jobs. Entry level positions in retail, restaurants etc. should be excluded from the temp foreign worker program. Foreigners here on a student visa should not be allowed to work at all. Both the TFW and student visa program are being abused by unscrupulous businesses. The immigration system also needs to go back to sustainable numbers and the successful points system that existed before Trudeau.
Helped start start a company about 45 years ago, the lady we hired as our book keeper was a Vietnamese Jamaican. Many of the lady’s we hired were Vietnamese, great girls. That’s it that’s all.
Oh, we sold the company a couple months ago,made big money,me happy now.
From the horse’s mouth:
https://www.bankofcanada.ca/2023/12/staff-analytical-note-2023-17/ December 2023
Assessing the effects of higher immigration on the Canadian economy and inflation
Topic(s): Domestic demand and components, Housing, Inflation and prices, Labour markets,
Potential output, Recent economic and financial developments
We assess the complex macroeconomic implications of Canada’s recent population increases.
We find that newcomers significantly boost the non-inflationary, potential growth of the economy,
but existing imbalances in the housing sector may be exacerbated.
Greater housing supply is needed to complement the long-term economic benefits of population growth.
https://www.bankofcanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/san2023-17.pdf
Bank of Canada lol
The one headed by Tiff who said inflation would be transitory?
The man should be driving an Uber with his intellectual buddies from the Sahel.
Any mention of this??
“Canada’s GDP growth per person was roughly in line with OECD averages between 2002 and 2014 but then stagnated. When comparing a 20-year period, the fall in GDP growth per person is stark – from US$3,141 above the average in 2002 to $231 below by 2022.”
And who was elected in 2015??
So more people has been a benefit to Canada??? Riiiight.
Does anyone think the neo-Marxist Liberal Scum of Canada didn’t do this on purpose?
And don’t kid yourself, a lot of these new found workers are short bus window lickers.
I see it constantly – half the delivery drivers go to the wrong house the first time because they can’t match the package’s number with the house number.
The other half don’t know how to drive even close to properly.
And 11 out of 10 are always on the fckn phone and we have to subsidize it.
#DystopiaDominion
I’ve worked with (and become friends with) immigrants from Cuba, Vietnam, China, the Philippines, & the Ivory Coast. The common thread they shared (other than being dedicated, hard working, decent human beings) was the fact that they all had taken the initiative to get themselves and their families out of their crap-hole countries and all had endured hardship & struggle to get here. So I don’t have an issue with good people migrating to countries that offer better opportunities. But I despise politicians and others who take advantage of the situation and migrants. Overall, a well thought out immigration policy is good. But the devils are in the details (and the legislatures).
Well…unemployed people do tend to rely on government to stay alive, and they are usually quite persuadable, so of course having a large number of unemployed does suit the interests of a government that wants to do a little game we like to call “takeover”. (ps. and I don’t blame the people: push comes to shove, people just want to survive, and not knowing where your next meal or shelter is coming from is a pretty basic carrot/stick; it’s easy to herd them once that happens; it’s easy to herd anyone really; just have to apply the correct stimuli).
At this point I believe Canada is nearly at parity between those who depend on private sector for their bread and those who depend upon the government. You were never going to vote your way out of this.
“You were never going to vote your way out of this.”
well jane, Canaduh sure as heck voted itself INTO it. just sayin’ . . . .
Of course they did. But I think I laid out some of the basics of how people can be…guided…to choose certain things and not choose others. The fun part?
That they will think they are doing it freely!
So perhaps you shouldn’t be too hard on your fellow countrymen.
Then again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp0EncYjfEo
Oh Canada…is this true? And here you are, all worried about pipelines and “energy super duper power’ status (whether for Canada or Alberta)…and you cannot focus on things that truly do damn you (you protest and speechify for MUH INDERPENDENCE! and to be able to make money…granted, important, but this, this goes further than ‘freedom and prosperity’!). At this rate you will be deserving of the same treatment as the Aztecs by the conquistadors because look at what you are in the process of allowing!
I’m still not sure why Canada needs to bring in 40 year old women from the other side of the planet to hand me a coffee out a Tim Hortons window. What a useless broken azzed country we live in..