There is a different between immigrants and foreign guest workers.  Immigrants are living in the country and they most likely will become citizens.   Foreign guest workers are hired just for a few months or years to cover "labour shortages" in certain areas.  Other times workers are hired to fill positions that "no one in all of Canada has experience or qualifications" to fill.  

I don't have anything against immigrants. I don't care where people were born.  If they want to be citizens and have legal status, no problem.  

I just don't think that a foreign guest worker should get a job that someone is willing to take so an employer can pay $85 per week less for or that some employer is lying to say that no one applied for that job.  

So now when I apply for a job I try to check all the company, names and addresses to see if they are legitimate.  Unfortunately some are email only on the ad so it is difficult to know unless you phone.  No one will talk to you etc.

A higher payroll tax on guest workers should limit their employment to cases of extreme necessity. That, and significant penalties for paying a guest worker less than comparable citizens. Make it very unprofitable to cheat....

Doing nothing for the jobless would be worse than Nazism because at least the Nazis put people out of their misery.

That, plus criminalizing tailoring ads to specific individuals.... I think the essential functions of a job can be bureaucratically defined.

Also get rid of birthright citizenship, Ireland did because it was abused.

I have nothing against immigrants. Immigration policies that flood the population with workers from a particular sector I DO have a problem with.

When it seems like every second taxi driver or convenience store worker in Sydney is a fellow IT professional, usually impressively qualified, then you don't have to think too hard to figure out why IT salaries have gone South and it's a nightmare trying to find a job.

GREED, GREED, GREED.  The guest temporary worker permit  is mostly about greed.  Employers can deduce $85/week for room and board - that is over $4000 per year.  Multiply that by several workers.  Even restaurant owners getting chef school "students" to work for free as part of their co-op and no job when they graduate.  The school was just set up to get cheap labour.  It is disgusting.  


Yes this is very damaging to people as well as the country in the future.  There used to be a website "not Canada" to warn people about emigrating to Canada.  People told their nightmares of being promised prosperity and jobs by certain Canadian agencies.  When they arrived they found that their professional qualifications that allowed them to emigrate were recognized and  they needed to pass exams and re certify before they could work here.  Then the discrimination of "no Canadian work experience".  People's lives were ruined and they became broke and could not go back to their homelands.  Dreams destroyed.

This post was last modified: 05-03-2012 09:49 PM by M.

I think a lot of people in my country will be offended by this remark, especially with WW2 liberation day coming up tomorrow.

NOT Nice at all.  The government should not be putting unemployed people into work camps and then killing them.  Being unemployed is not a crime.