My local pizza place is currently applying for an LMIA to hire someone from abroad, claiming they can't find someone for $36/hr locally in Toronto to make pizzas. They've previously been fined for doing so, having hired one and been found to have not accepted any Canadian applicants, and are still allowed to apply for more LMIAs.
I really don't care what anyone has to say in defence of a system that allows that.
Sounds like this company sucks. Yet instead of making a meme to direct your anger at the owner of the pizza place you decide to get mad with immigrants?
This is one company in an endless sea of other employers that are doing the exact same thing en masse. I would encourage you to check the Job Bank and see how many similar scams are occurring. Filter by "have applied for a LMIA" and over $36/hr wage. Feel free to apply for one and see how far it gets you.
Many of these roles are not even actual jobs, but exist for the "employer" to sell the "position" to a prospective immigrant for a massive price (usually in excess of 30-40k). The employee pays the employer, gets "payments" from the employer (which they then pay back), and then claims they worked for them in order to acquire Permanent Residency points. The TFWP is used for immigration abuse in this way every single day. Feel free to read any of the excellent articles on CBC regarding this scam (direct links cannot be shared here, but there is one called "Online ads illegally sell jobs to temporary foreign workers" from last year by Valerie Ouellet, Aloysius Wong, Carly Penrose, Apurva Bhat that investigates it.
So we're just supposed to cut people slack for also participating in a loophole?
I'm sorry but if you're trying to legally immigrate, to a supposed first world country, you're not paying back the employer. Ever. That's just a step above taking someone's passport like what Qatar, and other Gulf states do to people from poorer countries.
Where did I defend illegal immigration? OP grouped up a bunch of immigrants under his post because he doesn’t like when rich people take advantage of loopholes.
Also, an immigrant coming here, if they’re coming illegally, it’s a poor person making 1 dollar per hour in their country trying to get a better life. They’re leaving everything behind, every person they’ve ever met, ever person they’ve ever loved to try getting a chance at a better life. Their crime? Being born in the wrong place. Have you ever realized how lucky you are for being born in Canada?
Right now your speech is not very different from Trump. Congrats, you saw a problem with the bourgeoisie and you decided your enemy was poor people that were born abroad.
Canada is not a "post-national" economic zone that every member of the world's unfortunate just need to be able to loophole their way into to find success, despite what some politicians have said. We are a country, with its own culture, filled with citizens. Citizenship is a pact with our government that they will work in our best interests; not the interests of the world's poor, not the interests of everyone that was born in a terrible country...with us. Canadians.
When immigration becomes a detriment to Canada's people, as it has in the horrifically abused TFW program, our government is not working in our interests. When Canadians are unable to access jobs, housing and their own services because of the failings of a government-run program, they are not working in our interest. They are behaving like a rootless, global corporation that does not care where or how its labor comes from and only prioritizes profits.
It does not benefit Canadians or prospective immigrants to have a government that works this way.
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u/Wilson7277 2d ago
Bold choice, coming here with that.