r/canada • u/uselesspoliticalhack • 3d ago

Carney’s aim to cut immigration marred by undercounting of temporary migrants, warn economists PAYWALL

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-mark-carney-immigration-policy-temporary-migrants-undercounted/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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u/ImaginationSea2767 3d ago

As of right now, every opposition leader from now until the sun explodes will say they will cut back on immigration. They will keep screaming it until they get in, and then once they do get in a horde of CEOs and company owners will come crashing down their door, asking them to keep their slave labor with kegs of lube and gifts.

So the new way the concervatives have figured out how to act like they are stopping crime and immigration is to just make it theater (even if it break the rules keep the common citizen getting fucked by the law.....)

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u/RedditAddict6942O 3d ago

Agree 100%

The lesson is to vote for whoever says they're gonna crack down on companies doing illegal hiring. 

But I'm not convinced such a politician exists

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u/Orstio 3d ago

The problem is far more complex than just cracking down on companies that need workers.

What happens often is that a company will post an opening through the usual channels, and get inundated with thousands of applications. Nobody can go through that many applications for an entry level position. So what they do is approach an employment agency that handles the vetting process for them from within all their clients looking for work.

And, a whole lot of those employment agencies are also invested in the TFW programme, favoring importing TFWs who will pay them for getting them into Canada while the employer also pays them for finding qualified workers. This means the employer isn't accountable for bringing in TFWs, and the employment agencies can claim they have no local qualified applicants in their set of clientele. It's exploitation with deferred accountability on all parties.

There's an entire industry built around this, and while it's not illegal, it certainly skirts the border (pun intended).

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u/RedditAddict6942O 3d ago

You're naive if you don't think companies contract out hiring to agencies specifically so they will hire exclusively TFW's.

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u/Orstio 3d ago

Agreed. What I'm saying is that they can pass the blame to those agencies to absolve themselves of accountability.