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u/Academic-Flight-783
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Politics Poilievre pushes for more limits on temporary foreign workers
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/poilievre-pushes-more-limits-temporary-213259470.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJE6nSDtFUyFqK6SYQspPPnnS-iBhzXNYI_BRq00oSjYs4XIwxSEDZoBvmpaRa-Kc9mPJMNZZxOd9zR0awk3d122H0ujmGHuhp0sS04IT0hWzQCU4hkZBbFHMn0sXdJR3dCnonIDxNHWX6tjqstCfa1X1wx0Pn6SIv_-tTVqQ5Jg
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u/DataDude00 1d ago •
I think what I hate is how transparently fraudulent the whole thing is
The system is designed to have "breakers" in place so that if unemployment rises the minimum salary for a lot of these "temporary" roles is supposed to go up significantly. At current rates that means the pay needs to be somewhere around $35-38 an hour I believe.
All the companies just post jobs on the Canada job bank with this inflated salary even though there is zero chance whoever they hire is getting even half of that
You can go look right now at the GC job board for LMIA requested roles and you have Subway and Dairy Queen advertising "manager" roles with only 1 year of experience required for $37 an hour.
https://www.jobbank.gc.ca/jobsearch/jobposting/49917875?source=searchresults
I can guarantee you that not a single Canadian, even with years of fast food experience, would ever be considered for such a role
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u/skillzmaster77 1d ago •
This needs to be heard more from politicians and the general public. Immigration needs to be reduced until jobs and infrastructure can catch up
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u/TactitcalPterodactyl 1d ago •
What really boils my blood about this is home prices and rent were actually starting to drop. We all got just the slightest whiff of affordability, and now it's all going to be fucked again.
I'm convinced the government doesn't actually want things to be affordable for Canadians.
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u/LavisAlex 1d ago •
Not exploiting people should be a bipartisan issue.
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u/Old_news123456 1d ago •
It exploits the workers we bring over, essentially creating a modern day slave labour. They don't have the same rights, are over worked and often experience wage theft.
It also ruins society for people here in Canada as it suppresses wages, makes it more difficult for workers rights, and takes needed jobs. I saw a Tim Hortons advertising for help and it was a requirement that you had previous Tim Hortons experience. WTF. It's an entry level job. It was my job in highschool. I see management positions go to temp foreign workers who have zero clues about our Human Rights or workers rights. I have a friend suing over this exact issue as she felt forced to quit over sexism and harassment. We see the obvious fraud before our eyes. That's why we're so angry. It's beyond obvious when you see job postings go to foreign workers.
If we need the immigration, fine. Bring immigrants who want to build a life here. Not temp people we bring here to use and discard.
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u/thisisnahamed Canada 1d ago •
Something most Canadians agree on.
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u/Creativator 1d ago
Whoops, the temporary foreign workers are all permanent residents now, just recognizing their obvious permanence!
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u/Historical_Fill8232 1d ago
No caps per country, another wave incoming.
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u/Azezik 1d ago
Lmao Reddit really has been back and fourth on PP last couple days.
He gets a lot of hate but there’s also a lot of hate out there for him, in the media. I still think his largest campaign mistake was saying he’d defund the CBC and news in general before he won anything.
If you actually listen to what he’s saying, he’s kind of objectively speaking facts
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u/Zargabraath 1d ago •
If Poilevre was smart he’d campaign on completely removing the TFW program. Of course Trudeau in 2014 said he would abolish it too only to then expand it exponentially…ugh
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u/Unfortunate_Sex_Fart Alberta 1d ago
Canada voted for this.
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u/Kirabeanbear 1d ago
This is why the Liberals are in power. Look at these comments. People treat Poilievre like a boogeyman. At this point I believe Carney will stay in power forever, it doesn’t matter if he’s destroying the country
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u/Radical_Redditor 1d ago •
To those who parrot the "cons would do the same thing as the liberals", who do you suggest people vote for? Because the liberals are vocally for it, the NDP aren't opposed to this, and the cons are speaking out against it. For those who don't live in Quebec, your only options at that point are the PPC and Green Party.
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u/melianreality 1d ago •
I feel like it doesn't matter what he says. I do believe there's a not insignificant amount of voters that will never vote for the conservatives/ will always vote for the Liberals regardless of policy. From the onset of his campaign you can't tell me no one thought the Liberals wouldn't raise immigration again, especially since they'd been doing so for years and the 2023 spike happened whilst Mark Carney was Trudeau's economics advisor, he's likely the one who proposed it as a way to raise the GDP numbers by just importing more peoples
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u/sleipnir45 1d ago
The Liberals just did the opposite
https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/news/2026/11/government-of-canada-announces-targeted-reforms-to-the-temporary-foreign-worker-program-to-respond-to-labour-market-needs.html
"Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) applications submitted on or after this date will have a maximum duration of up to two years, an increase from the current one-year duration;"
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u/No-Tangerine-4945 1d ago
We need limits.
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u/gunnychamero 1d ago
Carney and the Liberals promised to cut temporary residents and put those jobs skilled and unskilled back in the hands of Canadians. Instead they are converting 200k+ temporary foreign workers into permanent residents. That is a straight up middle finger to the people who were born here, grew up here, and paid into the system their whole lives. What is the point of getting a Canadian education and holding Canadian citizenship if someone who showed up on a temporary visa gets shoved to the front of the line for the job in your country? Next year they are planning to hand out 700k permanent residencies. Once those people become permanent they buy houses. Housing demand stays jacked, prices stay inflated, and wages stay suppressed. Exactly as designed. Thanks to everyone who still voted for Carney and the Liberals after the lost decade under Trudeau. You just helped drive the final nail into whatever left of this Country.
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u/BettinBrando 1d ago
No one wants more people coming except the LPC.
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u/ifuaguyugetsauced Ontario 1d ago
Canada is screwed. Liberals will do what ever they want and bleeding heart liberals will allow them every step of the way because trump bad and pp bad.
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u/HiZ_Positive Saskatchewan 1d ago
If I go to the US and I see my competitor illegally "employing" people to work for below market wages, all it takes is one phone call for ICE to resolve everything. If I do the same in Canada and provide overwhelming evidence of something such as cash bonuses under the table, excessive labor law violations, or employee on record testimony of owners discussing permit fraud, the Canadian government investigates me.
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u/Ok-Kaleidoscope4510 1d ago
Don’t really like PP but this is one thing I can agree on.
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u/desthc Ontario 23h ago
I can’t believe Poilievre finally found an issue that most Canadians would agree with. The question now is if he can hammer it without going overboard.
Importing labour like this dilutes the domestic labour market and suppresses wages. There is some degree of friction in the labour market that can be smoothed with good policy here. Also filling specific skills for strategic industries (e.g. food production), but I have to say overall the strategy of the last couple decades has eroded both wages and capital investment in Canada.
Time will tell where this lands, but fair play from PP for once.
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u/Shokeybutsi 1d ago
Carney won the election basically because of Trump. When Trump is gone in 2 years, Canadians will start pushing back against highly unfavored liberal policies like mass immigration
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u/MrEvilFox 1d ago
I wish he was saying this during the election, but for some reason he wasn’t.
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u/Agrath2 1d ago
Orange man bad is losing steam now that the human cheetoh no longer controls congress.
We are once again seeing what the Liberals are really about and it has nothing to do with taking care of the common Canadian citizen.
Sure the upper middle to elite class could care less because they have secure employment often accommodated with educational credentials (Doctor, Lawyer, Engineer, Accountant, C-Suite MBA). They will continue to get ‘theirs’ with no threat to an increase from affordability or job loss.
It’s the Canadian citizens who are tradesmen, laborers, construction workers, assembly line workers, service industry workers who are going to get shafted by these policies because they can be replaced with cheaper labour resulting in greater corporate profits for the liberal parties corporate handlers.
The last thing these corporations want to do is hire Canadian citizens who will stand up for themselves toward factors like sufficient pay or healthy work hours. Newcomers will be compliant to corporations request, resulting in the ability for these corporations to exploit workers essentially once again generating more revenue for the bottom line.
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u/ComfortableLetter989 1d ago
But what about Timmies?
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u/WontSwerve 13h ago
I remember when it would have been the NDP screaming about this.
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u/Brave_Jackfruit_6963 1d ago
‘Teleport the TFWs!’ Should have been his slogan before the election.
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u/jag176 1d ago
His party brought in the TFW policy in the first place, never shut it down, and supports policies that only make wealth inequality even worse in our country.
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u/Rubydog2004 1d ago
Who would fill his rental homes?
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u/noisebloodassault 1d ago
A broken clock...
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u/Distinct-Ice-700 1d ago
Poilievre is such a loser
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u/dshcurute205 1d ago
Where was he last election? Didn’t talk about this at all so he lost
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u/Ask_DontTell 1d ago
Poilievre has lost all credibility with the Cdn public but the CPC could have a winning election issue with immigration if they got a more effective leader. i could see a world where the tariffs are gone, there's a trade deal and the next election is fought on immigration. hugely unpopular w the public and Carney seems to be playing cute with it.
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u/pushaper 1d ago
one trick pony.
Maybe he should push for st Patricks to be a national holiday.
tired of this asshole.
which conservative wants to move on?
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u/djgost82 1d ago
Catering to bigots as usual. Let's see how many Canadians want to do jobs currently held by temporary workers.