tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post4148872172502968164..comments2023-10-09T05:28:35.705-07:00Comments on Creekside: Protectingcanadianjobs-hahaha.comAlisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811694143714068436noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-61584642423650457302014-05-27T21:26:43.669-07:002014-05-27T21:26:43.669-07:00Stock photo from Masterfile.com
http://www.masterf...Stock photo from Masterfile.com<br />http://www.masterfile.com/em/search/#session=1401250476991&id=1401250475473&color=&colour_key=0&format=hvsp&imgtype=IPV&releases=&keyImage=&keyword=African+chef+and+Hispanic+businessmankitchen&license=ALL&mode=search&sort=alice<br /><br />used tineye.com to find.<br /><br />I think Glen McGregor at the Ottawa Citizen is interested in the used of stock photos. He's written about them before.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-2373723565674962602014-05-20T20:05:23.019-07:002014-05-20T20:05:23.019-07:00The signatures appear to be mainly foreign workers...The signatures appear to be mainly foreign workers and the occasional "Sally Smith" which I suspect are the restaurant owners who told all their staff to sign the thing. Temporary foreign workers are not represented by MPs so best of luck with that petition, corporate restaurant world. MyPetGloatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-28699486959931008352014-05-20T02:20:19.979-07:002014-05-20T02:20:19.979-07:00Well this is lovely - Jason Kenney literally runni...Well this is lovely - Jason Kenney literally running away from CBC reporter's questions about <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/film-company-accused-of-foreign-worker-fraud-extortion-1.2645557" rel="nofollow">an alleged exploitation/extortion/fraud TFW case</a> that was reported to CBSA 9 months ago by an immigration lawyer yet the company is still advertising for more workers. 2nd time this has happened! Later JK sent CBC an email blaming the Libs 8 years ago. Ha!<br /><br />Thank you, eaf, Cameron, Boris, very much for your insightful comments. Busy day but will post more on this tomorrow. <br />The Smithcom ad/petition linked in the post has over 2,000 signatures - nearly three-quarters from Alberta but only 50 from Ontario. <br /><br /><i>Its like cotton plantations saying they needed to keep slaves so they would be economically viable.</i><br /><br />At work today I was thinking ... what the Cons are doing here - rubberstamping a process almost entirely controlled from start to hideous finish by the businesses making TFW requests - is privatizing immigration.Alisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09811694143714068436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-50015541467314556892014-05-19T17:57:04.267-07:002014-05-19T17:57:04.267-07:00GREAT article. Ought to be reprinted in newspaper...GREAT article. Ought to be reprinted in newspapers around the country. Might be good if it were sent on as a letter to the editor in all the Canadian newspapers.<br /><br />Its funny when employers say they would have to close their doors if they can't have poorly paid workers. What they are in effect saying is they want workers to subsidize their businesses. So here we go. Employers who can't run a business want their workers, who make less than the poverty level, have to help them stay in business.<br /><br />Well in a free market economy, capitalist economy, which all of these guys say they support actually want a form of welfare. Its like cotton plantations saying they needed to keep slaves so they would be economically viable. <br /><br />This isn't working for anyone but the employers. It isn't helping the country because when workers make less than what is considered "poverty level" their children become further and further impoverished: i.e. insufficient food, inadequate housing and clothing--this is Canada and it freezes; inadequate dental care because its not free, inadequate medical care because physio, meds, etc. are not free.<br /><br />So what these employers want is for kids to die a slow death so they can make money. What is truly hilarious is that these employers are some of the wealthiest, most profitable international corporations in the world. e.a.f.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-40088778330901071142014-05-19T05:20:50.986-07:002014-05-19T05:20:50.986-07:00Another point: This has nothing to do with convent...Another point: This has nothing to do with conventional economic policy or needs. There's no appreciation of effects on GDP, job growth, and other indicators of sound and principled economics. This is naked abuse of other human beings, deliberate and thuggish fascism designed to stratify Canadian society into haves and slaves, full stop. Borishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13971936879817909917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-18323713716061979352014-05-19T05:02:47.924-07:002014-05-19T05:02:47.924-07:00Alison, the Climenhaga pieces is excellent, especi...Alison, the Climenhaga pieces is excellent, especially this line:<br /><br />"And remember, the Canadian employees we’re talking about are people like our own children!"<br /><br />It's high and low skilled jobs that are under threat, basically any Canadian worker who isn't an owner or executive is in danger of being replaced by a TFW slave. It really doesn't matter if your a franchise owner of some fast food chain or an VP at a major bank, you belong to a class that gives the "right" to turn your workers into chattel. The psychology behind this is right out of the Stanford Prison Experiments. Your chip-shop owner is on track to gain the power control their tiny workforce with the power of a dictator. It turns older Canadians against the "ungrateful" youth, their own children and future. <br /><br />It's fucking sick, and if the rest of us don't consolidate and do something, things will just worse.<br /><br /> Borishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13971936879817909917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-21337859791143567972014-05-19T02:59:37.316-07:002014-05-19T02:59:37.316-07:00Well said and researched Alison. Thank you.
Cana...Well said and researched Alison. Thank you. <br /><br />Canadians need to get ANGRY about this. They need to STAY ANGRY about this too. We're often to nice, too Canadian to stay angry, but we need to. The behaviour of these companies that are abusing the TFWP is a betrayal to Canadians and we need to remind them of this. Boycott McDonald's, Tim Horton's, and any other company until they publicly renounce the program and offer a sincere apology to CANADIANS. <br /><br />Thanks for offering clarity on this subject.<br />Cameron Stevenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09235306215988767599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-91652523997487125152014-05-19T02:31:11.667-07:002014-05-19T02:31:11.667-07:00Boris : I'm reading the 2012 Metcalf Foundatio...Boris : I'm reading the <a href="http://metcalffoundation.com/publications-resources/view/made-in-canada/" rel="nofollow">2012 Metcalf Foundation report "Made in Canada"</a>.<br />Yes, there's a deliberate legal construct for this slavery program - an intersection of provincial labour laws and federal immigration law.<br />Example : Work permits can forbid workers from taking language and job skills courses after working hours. <br />Seriously? WTF is the purpose of that - other than keeping them enslaved?<br />Alisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09811694143714068436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-52865878501811794122014-05-19T01:22:55.876-07:002014-05-19T01:22:55.876-07:00Labour mobility is always the sticking point with ...Labour mobility is always the sticking point with these FTAs. The theory says that labour ought to be as unfettered as financial capital and able to flock to the best labour markets, not the worst ones. The EU is set up like that so that workers can move about and trade their labour where they see fit. Canada's approach is not like that and constructed to solely benefit the profit making of business owners by indenturing workers to their companies. We should start calling it Canada's Slavery Program. TFW doesn't cut it. Borishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13971936879817909917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-43599681926052047012014-05-19T00:10:47.380-07:002014-05-19T00:10:47.380-07:00Aw shucks, Gloat, *blush*
There's a bit more i...Aw shucks, Gloat, *blush*<br />There's a bit more in the middle of the post now about NRA and CRFA success in capping the minimum wage that I left out when I posted.<br /><br />Yeah, horrible story about Belize workers at McDonald's. <br /><br />Also ... Newfoundland Labrador has half a million people and unemployment is 13.7%. Why do Timmy's, Subway, and McD's all need TFWs for Gander and St John's?<br /><br />Holly[space]Stick: And I thank you for whatever mysterious clever twitterati thing you have done. ;-)<br /><br />Anon : Yes. According to the <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/temporary-foreign-workers-everything-you-need-to-know/article18363279/" rel="nofollow">G&M</a> :<br />"Labour Market Opinion (LMO) is a screening process by Employment and Social Development Canada that is meant to ensure an employer has first exhausted all local options to find a Canadian. However, nearly two-thirds of all temporary foreign workers do not need an LMO. Inter-company staff exchanges or workers brought in under trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement are exempt from the LMO process."<br /><br />Alisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09811694143714068436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-87253343798740477642014-05-18T19:38:46.413-07:002014-05-18T19:38:46.413-07:00Inter-company transfers was what the Royal Bank us...Inter-company transfers was what the Royal Bank used to bring in IT workers from India last year.<br /><br />New free trade deal coming up with new biz-friendly India gov.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/narendra-modi-s-india-election-win-could-be-good-for-canada-1.2645495" rel="nofollow">Ontario's manufacturers, Alberta's oil sector could cash in on Bharatiya Janata Party victory</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-19087046313918747042014-05-18T18:55:55.663-07:002014-05-18T18:55:55.663-07:00When tweeted, your title causes a link to nowhere;...When tweeted, your title causes a link to nowhere; which I fix by putting [dot] in place of the .<br /><br />Holly StickAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-61818022505379107102014-05-18T18:06:48.849-07:002014-05-18T18:06:48.849-07:00Will McDonalds Canada be signing the petition?
Mc...Will McDonalds Canada be signing the petition?<br /><br />McDonald's foreign workers call it 'slavery': Foreign workers recruited from Belize are accusing McDonald’s Canada of treating them like "slaves," by effectively forcing them to share an expensive apartment – then deducting almost half their take-home pay as rent.<br />http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/mcdonald-s-foreign-workers-call-it-slavery-1.2612659MyPetGloatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-83846403063250722232014-05-18T17:56:11.487-07:002014-05-18T17:56:11.487-07:00Fabulous research. Now if only there was some way...Fabulous research. Now if only there was some way to get this on the front page of every newspaper in Canada that should be doing this kind of investigative reporting.MyPetGloathttps://twitter.com/MyPetGloatnoreply@blogger.com