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> I personally think the idea of bringing in foreign labor is a very bad thing for the sponsoring country. [...] They can't work anywhere else, and if they quit
by Jayschwa 13y ago
> I personally think the idea of bringing in foreign labor is a very bad thing for the sponsoring country. [...] They can't work anywhere else, and if they quit they are deported.
It sounds like a vicious cycle:
Immigration is bad -> Limit immigrants or deport them on a hair trigger -> Employers leverage/exploit the circumstances -> Bad results -> Immigration is bad.
- grecy 13y agoI'm not saying immigration is bad, at all. I'm saying that bringing in foreign labor to keep wages low and therefore manipulate the local market to increase corporate profits is bad. Very bad. Where I live, there can be a genuine shortage of labor (i.e. there are just not enough people living up here to do all the jobs - it is -40 in the winter after all) So in that case, it makes sense to try and recruit from within Canada, at a wage that Canadians are willing to do the job for ($14-$18/hr. right now). If you still can't get enough people at that, then go to immigration, but critically, you MUST pay them the $14-$18/hr. The controls and rules around how much immigrants are being paid are extremely lax, and in my experience, are grossly exploited in the very vast majority of cases, because it leads to higher corporate profits, which at the end of the day is the goal of all this anyway.