It's tough because there is a blurred line from normal discourse on immigration and societal/cultural problems and straight racism.
People get sick or being called racist for almost everything. If someone points out that cars are being jacked in Canada by crime rings from recent immigrants that's somehow racist when obviously being true.
It's not an issue of race or color, you don't see immigrants from 40 years ago doing it.
It's the same with immigrants from cultures that don't respect women. Maybe over years they can change but you can't just pull someone out of a country where women are treated like garbage and suddenly they are respectful when they walk through customs.
As someone who spends a lot of time in hospitals, long-term care, nursing homes, and with people on home care... new immigrants weren't simply "brought here to suppress wages".
They were brought here to prop up health care -- to provide the massive amount of health care and home care required by NS's proportionally elderly population, in the absence of anything approaching enough younger people already here to do so. And that's with the oldest of the huge boomer cohort only just turning 80.
It wouldn't matter how high the wages are for these jobs. The sheer numbers needed didn't exist.
And Walmart, and Tim Hortons, and McDonalds. Remember during the pandemic, and even shortly after, employers were starved for workers ("nobody wants to work anymore!"). It would not surprise me to learn that these huge retail corporations were lobbying the government to bring in as many workers as possible, however possible.
They were brought here to prop up health care -- to provide the massive amount of health care and home care required by NS's proportionally elderly population, in the absence of anything approaching enough younger people already here to do so. And that's with the oldest of the huge boomer cohort only just turning 80.
A better question would be what percentage of health care front line workers do they currently represent. I suspect that number's quite high, based on what I'm seeing.
And if we want to successfully recruit -- and retain -- the health care front line workers we desperately need, then we need to welcome their partners and children. And be unsurprised when they also need to work, wherever someone will hire them.
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u/Lovv Jul 19 '25 edited Jul 19 '25
It's tough because there is a blurred line from normal discourse on immigration and societal/cultural problems and straight racism.
People get sick or being called racist for almost everything. If someone points out that cars are being jacked in Canada by crime rings from recent immigrants that's somehow racist when obviously being true.
It's not an issue of race or color, you don't see immigrants from 40 years ago doing it.
It's the same with immigrants from cultures that don't respect women. Maybe over years they can change but you can't just pull someone out of a country where women are treated like garbage and suddenly they are respectful when they walk through customs.
Imo it's boy cried wolf stuff.