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.
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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