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Canadian-born visible minority youth facing an unfair job future
One possible solution is to enact employment legislation requiring employers to take active measures to eliminate discrimination and to promote more inclusive hiring practices. Such legislation still covers federally regulated employers, but Ontario’s employment equity act was repealed in 1995 by the Harris government. We are storing up trouble if we fail to discuss how to promote employment equity when the labour force is becoming ever more diverse, and the fact of discrimination is apparent.
Tags: economy, immigration, multiculturalism, participation, standard of living, youth
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Temporary foreign workers threatened the Conservative coalition
Migrant employment rose 140 per cent between 2005 and 2012. One in every five net new paid jobs created in Canada between 2007 and 2012 was filled by a migrant worker – a startling reliance on what was supposed to be a “last resort” program… The hospitality sector alone had 45,000 guest workers on the roll by 2012, with migrants capturing 40 per cent of net new positions since 2009. How many jobs are there in hotels and restaurants that Canadians truly cannot perform?
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, immigration, standard of living
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Foreign workers won’t be temporary if we make them permanent
… nothing is worse for a country than having a large number of unaccompanied individuals living in your country with no ability to form family, educational or economic ties. Whereas permanent immigrants are a net gain, temporary ones do nothing for our development and often harm their lives… Since this is a chronically underpopulated country with an aging population and an inadequately sized consumer and taxpayer base for its geography and culture, there is no reason for Canada to make any of its immigrants anything other than permanent.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, immigration, standard of living
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Supply, demand and citizens – rather than temporary guest workers
It makes perfect sense for companies to be able to bring in specialized engineers or skilled tradespeople from overseas, to fill vacancies in critical, highly paid positions… It’s harder to see the benefit to Canada of creating a class of permanent guest workers filling entry-level jobs… Do we want a class of working strangers who come here, do our dirty work and then are forced to leave? Canada has always wanted something else: immigrants… We don’t just want them to work for us. We want them to join us, as Canadians.
Tags: economy, globalization, immigration, rights, standard of living
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Time to end Canada’s temporary foreign worker program
The reason why employers prefer TFWs over Canadians is that the former are essentially indentured labour. The vast majority of low-wage workers from abroad are from poorer areas of the world and will do almost anything to avoid losing their positions with the employers who brought them here and to whom they are tied.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, immigration, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living, youth
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Low wages, not poor work ethic, behind surge of foreign labour
For its members [the Canadian Federation of Independent Business], having a ready supply of low-wage workers may be paramount. For the rest of society, other priorities matter. Canadians want a fair shot at jobs in their own country. They want fair labour practices. They want one set of rules for everybody.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, immigration, rights, standard of living, youth
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Canada needs more immigrant future citizens, fewer guest workers
Canada should be wary of creating a large pool of low-wage, temporary guest workers with limited rights, some of whom run the risk of turning into illegal residents when their temporary status ends. Employers having trouble finding workers to fill low-skill, low-wage jobs have two choices: attract new employees by raising wages, or find a new pool of people willing to work for less.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, immigration, rights, standard of living
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The key to Canada’s immigration success
As the number of temporary migrants to Canada rises and the government contemplates policy changes that might make it harder for immigrants to gain citizenship, it is important to understand why Canada’s immigration policy has been such a success so far… And Canada needs people, not just workers or entrepreneurs. This idea should be front and centre as politicians and Canadians consider the country’s immigration and settlement policies.
Tags: economy, globalization, immigration, multiculturalism, participation
Posted in Inclusion Debates | 2 Comments »
No skills crisis as Tories claim, budget watchdog says
the Parliamentary Budget Officer takes Finance Canada to task over its warnings of job and skills shortages, concluding there is little evidence in support of a national labour shortage or skills mismatch in Canada. Further, the PBO report on Canada’s labour market found median real wages have stagnated since the end of the recession, while average real wages have increased, meaning it is only higher-income earners who are seeing wage increases.
Tags: economy, globalization, immigration, standard of living
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Don’t undermine Elections Canada
Currently, Elections Canada protects the right to vote of citizens who lack standard forms of identification by allowing them to take an oath affirming their identity, citizenship, and residence in the polling division, and having a qualified voter from the same polling division vouch for their eligibility. In 2011, approximately 120,000 citizens relied on the vouching provision in order to vote. By eliminating vouching, the Fair Elections Act would disenfranchise many of these citizens.
Tags: crime prevention, homelessness, ideology, immigration, participation, rights, standard of living
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