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Originally Posted by westopher
I certainly think they are focusing on both. I agree, promoting immigration shouldn't be a priority, but I also don't think it is as high on their list as people who are against it are trying to paint the picture that it is. Everything has an angle.
There are job shortages in certain sectors, but there are also shortages of workers in many sectors. Look at the fish processing on the east coast. No one wants to do it, and as a result Canada will be losing out on a fairly substantial contributor to our GDP. What's even worse, in my eyes, is the needless wasted food as a result, which will drive up prices of seafood in a damaged economy. I know it's not massive, and I'm not trying to say that it is, but thats just one example, and there are more.
More expensive food, in a poorer country is a big fucking problem in my eyes.
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Nobody wanted to do them when they had options.
A lot of businesses have closed their doors for good. That's not a spike. With cerb ending in October, and a lower demand for workers, the options people have will be few.
As you said previously, these immigration figures were drawn up when unemployment was at record lows. Now that we're 180 out from those projections, it just doesn't make any sense to me that those figures wouldn't be reconsidered. Strictly from an economic standpoint.
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Originally Posted by will068
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.
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And that's all fine and dandy (for all intents and purposes) when the demand for work is high and supply of workers is low. But clearly, we aren't in Kansas anymore.
Importing cheaper labor while the supply here is already at record high, i just can't see that as much other than sidelining Canadians in dire need.
these decisions are exactly what determine an economic rebound.