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I think most folks are unaware, really. What's more, here in BC the NDP (left-leaning labour party) stripped Tech Workers of the majority of their labour right

I think most folks are unaware, really. What's more, here in BC the NDP (left-leaning labour party) stripped Tech Workers of the majority of their labour rights. Not even meal breaks were saved. https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/employment-standards-altered-for-high-tech-professionals/27938 https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/employment-standards-a...

908B64B197 5y ago
Interestingly, that party and the people in charge of the "tech policy" are all Indians aren't they? [0][1] It makes sense they would pitch offshoring and low cost for programming since they saw it working for their country. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagmeet_Singh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagmeet_Singh [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navdeep_Bains https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navdeep_Bains
- Apocryphon 5y ago
  > Singh was born on January 2, 1979, in Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario > Bains was born in Toronto, Ontario on June 16, 1977
  - 908B64B197 5y ago
    Not sure what's the point being made https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_nationality_law#Citizenship_by_Descent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_nationality_law#Citizen...
    - Apocryphon 5y ago
      Both politicians are of Indian extraction and descent but not only were born in Canada, but grew up there entirely. It's incorrect to claim that "their country" is India and not Canada. Second generation immigrants are not necessarily well-versed in nor even aware of the goings-on of their ancestral homelands. Though technically you are correct on both counts. By dint of being born after 1950 but before 1992 to Indian fathers, they may be considered Indian citizens. And based on the ancestral comment in this subthread, it does seem like being an outsource destination is working out for Canada. But only technically correct.
- dleslie 5y ago
  I doubt it has anything to do with the ethnicity of MLAs _now_ because the change happened _twenty years ago_. That said, British Columbia has had a sizeable, and growing, Indian population since roughly around the time of joining Canada. The Komagata Maru incident[0] was the precursor to an influx of immigration from the punjab. After English, the three most spoken languages in BC are Cantonese, Mandarin, and Punjabi[1]. The ethnic chinese population arrived in basically two waves: as early settlers during the western expansion, they were pivotal in the creation of the railways and as foundational members of small towns[2]. And then the transfer of HK to CN brought an influx. 0: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/komagata-maru https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/komagata-m... 1: https://www.welcomebc.ca/Choose-B-C/Explore-British-Columbia/Language-in-B-C https://www.welcomebc.ca/Choose-B-C/Explore-British-Columbia... 2: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/chinese-canadians https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/chinese-ca...

908B64B197 5y ago

Interestingly, that party and the people in charge of the "tech policy" are all Indians aren't they? [0][1] It makes sense they would pitch offshoring and low cost for programming since they saw it working for their country. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagmeet_Singh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagmeet_Singh [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navdeep_Bains https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navdeep_Bains

Apocryphon 5y ago
> Singh was born on January 2, 1979, in Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario > Bains was born in Toronto, Ontario on June 16, 1977
- 908B64B197 5y ago
  Not sure what's the point being made https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_nationality_law#Citizenship_by_Descent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_nationality_law#Citizen...
  - Apocryphon 5y ago
    Both politicians are of Indian extraction and descent but not only were born in Canada, but grew up there entirely. It's incorrect to claim that "their country" is India and not Canada. Second generation immigrants are not necessarily well-versed in nor even aware of the goings-on of their ancestral homelands. Though technically you are correct on both counts. By dint of being born after 1950 but before 1992 to Indian fathers, they may be considered Indian citizens. And based on the ancestral comment in this subthread, it does seem like being an outsource destination is working out for Canada. But only technically correct.
dleslie 5y ago
I doubt it has anything to do with the ethnicity of MLAs _now_ because the change happened _twenty years ago_. That said, British Columbia has had a sizeable, and growing, Indian population since roughly around the time of joining Canada. The Komagata Maru incident[0] was the precursor to an influx of immigration from the punjab. After English, the three most spoken languages in BC are Cantonese, Mandarin, and Punjabi[1]. The ethnic chinese population arrived in basically two waves: as early settlers during the western expansion, they were pivotal in the creation of the railways and as foundational members of small towns[2]. And then the transfer of HK to CN brought an influx. 0: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/komagata-maru https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/komagata-m... 1: https://www.welcomebc.ca/Choose-B-C/Explore-British-Columbia/Language-in-B-C https://www.welcomebc.ca/Choose-B-C/Explore-British-Columbia... 2: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/chinese-canadians https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/chinese-ca...