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Originally Posted by welfare
why is immigration needed while unemployment is reaching record highs in canada? Especially immigration at record numbers?
Does that seem logical? What is the rush?
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My personal opinion, it's cheaper labour.
You want that person with a Masters or PHD in a STEM field, but you can pay that person a much lesser salary than their peers. Why not ?
Corporations that setup shop here like that.
That's the reason why MSFT opened up shop here in Vancouver. Companies in the states are limited to how many H-1B visas they can grant to potential immigrant employees. Being in tech for 14 years for a $40B multinational. A few years back, we terminated our local QA head and a number of QA personnel. We replaced them with contract workers who are fresh off the boat Indians.
Instead of the invisible hand of the free market doing what it needs to do (e.g. less supply, more demand, more $$ with the demand), we have ample supply of resources again and corporations do not have spend much $$.
I remember reading articles a while back when McDonald's could not get enough employees to work at their Ft. McMurray Branches. Simple resolution for that is raise the wage until you attract the talent. However, McDonald's isn't willing to do that. The alternative that they did, hire a bunch of fresh off the boat immigrants.