Canada's temporary foreign worker program a "breeding ground" for contemporary slavery: UN report

[@KaleighMacKay]

No way, who could have possibly seen this coming except EVERYONE.

[@martinmonaghan-m9i]

YUP. 😱🙏🙏🙏

[@markamd1]

Deport! Youth unemployment is the highest it has ever been since 2014, give out these jobs to Canadian families that can't make ends meet. Give out these jobs to Canadian students that are looking for Summer jobs.

[@CJMactaggartknits]

In my area there are more TFW's then high school students working at Timm's and McD's, Subway and KFC. It appears that very few of the high school students were able to secure employment. My child was told he was the wrong colour at one interview. It's Toxic and disgusting. Thankfully he has been taken in by a friend who has him working construction.

[@pezinski01]

From mass immigration to mass deportation...

[@momofighter3211]

Is it possible to identify as a slave? my pronouns would be rep/arations

[@TheAircool1]

To mass starvation

[@WinstonSmithRoom101]

@@TheAircool1Whites will be just fine, the others well…

[@TheAircool1]

@@WinstonSmithRoom101 I was referring to mass starvation in Canada

[@firstandforemost87]

@@TheAircool1 Fewer mouths to feed typically doesn’t lead to starvation though

[@SomeRandomCanuck]

God forbid they hire someone from here at livable wages.

[@RobertRitchie-re5pt]

Why would they do that??? H that makes too much sense.

[@DaKrawnik]

ok

[@Kr0nicDragon]

That would turn a $2.5 billion profit into a $2.4 billion profit and we can’t have that now can we? How else are CEO’s supposed to buy a fleet of yachts and private jets? They wouldn’t be able to survive.

[@strife0212]

GOVERNMENT FORBID haha

[@bobthekobb]

they want to treat us like them trust me. Get rid of unions and worker rights and you become the slave.

How about we focus on Canadians and putting Canadians to work! Let's get our priorities set straight.

[@ur-inannak9565]

Canada has become a big business dystopia. In my opinion this is the downstream result of a culture of apathy.

[@shanephillips4011]

Just the downstream result of liberal policies

[@TheMoniquebean]

Yes

[@B.D.F.]

I see this all over my small town. Hundreds of positions that would otherwise go to low-income earners, students, elders, etc, all being filled by temporary foreign workers. Why? Government subsidies. There are hundreds of unemployed people in town who can do the job and apply regularly, yet businesses keep insisting they need to hire foreign workers to fill these jobs that people in town are clamouring to have simply because they won’t receive the same benefits with domestic workers as they would with temporary foreign workers.

[@chelsey1ize]

don't buy from them anymore when you see 'take-over'

[@shanephillips4011]

​@user-lb1cw2ku8h except it's really our money, paying foreign folks less than locals for the same work.

[@Libra-_-]

@user-lb1cw2ku8hIt doesn’t go back into our local economy

[@justadildeau]

​@user-lb1cw2ku8h your English proves you're not a Canadian just like us.

[@CJMactaggartknits]

NAILED IT.

[@SCVM__]

End the Program ....and all others

[@chelsey1ize]

it needs to go. Too many too sole-sourced from one or two countries, reeks of scams from countries infamous for being epicenters of fraud and scams with labour camps. They need to end this immediately.

[@moniquelareck3812]

I hope you will work on the farms! The program doesn’t need ending. It needs reforming. Canadians are lazy and won’t do these jobs. We need others, but we need them treated fairly.

[@22GreenForever]

​@@moniquelareck3812I'm Canadian, and I'm not lazy; so, what are you even yammering on about?

[@Willowdale494]

​@moniquelareck3812 Not true. In university, a lot of classmates went to work on fruit farms, as did my spouse.

[@tomy3116]

@@moniquelareck3812 No, Canadians will absolutely do them but will not do them for the poor compensation that is offered because they got so used to importing third world labor to avoid paying proper compensation at market rates.

[@bobuker1]

Crazy to think how Tim Hortons survived for it's first 50 years by employing local young adults and not shipping people from across the world to pour coffee.

[@marielleandrewsturner2047]

They won't hire anyone but foreigners now.

[@georgesimon6041]

As long as there are people on Welfare there should be ZERO foreign workers.

[@shauncameron8390]

Bring back workfare?

[@TokyoBalletReprise]

@@shauncameron8390 Yes, unless disabled and make all welfare conditional (unless disabled, veteran, senior and other exceptions of course), give bonuses to families on welfare in which the kids have high grades too.

[@chocolateface8664]

Meth addicts won’t work, they’ll just steal and collect cans. Foreign workers actually want to be here to work hard and send money back home

[@martymethuselah]

or foreign born owners.. no way this many brownies should own local industry

[@adrian-gr8hg]

Wow.

[@InFamou5Killer]

They want you poor

[@user-buck-b7j]

And I want them out of govt

[@hfghhtf]

Give them permanent residence. Are you kidding me? We need to get rid of these foreign workers and employ Canadians, not give him permanent residency, you're in your mind.

[@KcipKram]

That’s right! Vote Conservative and we can all work for 12$ an hour, 16 hr days, 7 days a week.

[@nonasmith2405]

They have been offered permanent residency for decades. It's a travesty. Both Provincial and Federal governments need to not allow this in my opinion.

[@Corvonis]

​@@KcipKramyou were clearly improperly discharged from the psych ward

[@brianyang3265]

The illegal immigrants are the top priority for the gov atm, as dumb as it sounds, we even have cheaters who lied on their paperworks gets PR while being caught lying

[@markpick5642]

@@Corvonis you will pick produce or you will starve. Pretty simple.

[@whiskeytango9769]

Close the program, get our own kids to work.

[@NorthHollywood]

good luck getting canadian kids to work, especially those labour jobs.

[@banwa_non]

I haven't see canadian kids wanting to do this kind of work, all of them want to be social media influencers or some banker.

[@luannecorlett4683]

do you think kids would want to work in the fields for hours in the hot sun

[@shanephillips4011]

​@@luannecorlett4683the problem is that everyone seems very concerned with their "wants." Wants should come second or third to real life practicality. I want to never work again and have my expenses paid.......too bad what I want isn't realistic. Suck it up and work a labour job, you'll save on gym memberships 😂. 25 years in construction at this point, and it has turned me into a beast of a human. Yep, carrying 200 bundles of shingles 35' up a ladder surely sucks, at 80lbs each, but do you ever feel good at the end of it, also, nobody can ever take that away from you. Work hard, sweat, bleed, and curse the entire time, then go home and be proud to be one of the few willing to work these days.

[@MariaVogel-rf4mf]

Yes that is right, and well said!! We try to hire Canadians and many time complain, it is too hot, it's to humid, it is to wet, it's too heavy , ( ), I need two days off to visit family....and so on. But not all of them , they are sole that are like a gold nugget , hard to find !!! We have some good ones. Huge help. They help us and we help them!!!

[@amandamccallum6796]

It used to be just agricultural workers like you are showing, but now it's Tim Hortons, gas stations, KFC, these companies are hiring foreign workers instead of Canadian workers so they can keep wages low, and workers in terrible working conditions. Our kids can't find jobs to save/pay for college because these corporations are bringing in low wage workers instead of hiring Canadians.

[@rlcam6175]

Canadians are not applying for the jobs in these industries. During the worker shortage the farm TFW programs expanded. How many 20 somethings do you see applying for jobs in service industries.

[@White_Wrath]

​@@rlcam6175stop with the lies.

[@justadildeau]

​@@rlcam6175LIAR LIAR LIAR

[@justadude117X]

Recent studies actually show that foreign workers tend to slightly raise wages in local areas. The whole anti-immigration is just racsism and a misunderstanding of how the economy works

[@justadildeau]

@@justadude117X lol crying racism for everything and citing no name studies isn't helping your nonsense case

[@stevenfera434]

These jobs should go to teenagers and young Canadians not TFW kind of strange that the youth unemployment rate is at its all-time high and we’re in 135,000 temporary foreign workers to work at all these fast food places

[@Plug604]

​@@Bigsudzyou are wrong.

[@Plug604]

​​@@Bigsudzwhat are considered entry-level positions and jobs that help people to gain knowledge and skills to advanced are being filled by mass immigration and temporary foreign workers and foreign students. What is the point of citizenship at that point.

[@zachweyrauch2988]

I think you're bang on the money.

[@Plug604]

@@kneelbeforethelord917 I think you should reread my comments you obviously have mistaken my position

[@Plug604]

@@kneelbeforethelord917 I come from Khalistan...Surrey BC. I know more than anybody what's going on. You missed that my comment you're referring to is not addressed to the original comment poster it is addressed to another person which has since removed or had removed his comments. Apology accepted

[@chelsey1ize]

This is disgusting. Exploiting the LMIA/Express program, This should be shut-down. Canadians, should be prioritized. It's displacing our own youth and causing tension. If you see this at your local franchise, don't buy there. This will affect your family members in getting even just part-time jobs or preventing them from even getting their foot in the door. Awful government policies.

[@alexrubin5955]

Cash for LMIA is literally ruining lives of thousands of Canadian youth who can't find jobs. And it's also jacking up the housing market as the proceedings from these scams gets invested in real estate.

[@dawnelder9046]

Give jobs to Canadians.

[@ThrifterGuy]

What I find funny and I don't mean haha funny. Is that foreign workers wages are subsidized by the government. The government pays so much (from tax payer money as usual) then the company pays so much to the employee. It's a damn shame. I useto have a house in Niagara Falls and I had a rear neighbor that was from another country. The few houses behind me were government owned. He was given 5k per month plus his rental house for 700 per month all inclusive. So including water, and all utilities. And he and his family were given allowances for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Now I'm not against immigrants but that's shameful. Again with tax payer money.

[@rlcam6175]

​@ThrifterGuy I don't know what program they were under. That doesn't sound accurate to me. TGW have to pay taxes on their wages.

[@senthilpandian1316]

you guys are lazy

[@FarBeyondDriven2]

They don't want the jobs lol I worked on a farm that brought in over 100 Jamaicans yearly. You can't find people to do those jobs like picking strawberries etc.

[@LiberateAlberta1907]

​@@senthilpandian1316 Excuse me how can we be lazy when all of our jobs and resources are given to those who come here? Canadians should be #1 on the list to give jobs to. Not them!!

[@BrainMonkeyBooks]

All employers that do this should be heavily fined.

[@niniv2706]

For doing what ? ... The report never presented data that point to wrongdoing .

[@CantHandleThisCanYa]

@@niniv2706for not hiring real Canadians

[@theasianjaywalker4455]

​@@CantHandleThisCanYaok well thats wonderful. So are you going to actually DO anything? Like phone your MP or stop going to Tim Hortons. Or just announce a thing you know wont happen so you can pretend you did your part and were in the right?

[@zachweyrauch2988]

​@@CantHandleThisCanYaboycotting Tim's and mcdonalds would likely be a worthwhile effort. Slap it up on your socials and try to get others involved.

[@niniv2706]

@@CantHandleThisCanYa - Sorry Check Mate Capt'n ... I farm 225 acres of prime vegetable land 30 minutes from Montreal Qc. Canada ... Locals expect to get premium pay for manual labor . I used to hire 15 to 20 local College aged youth to fill jobs of harvesting cabbages and squashes ... They don't do that anymore ... How many acres do YOU farm ...

[@jewelv]

Prioritize Canadian citizens looking for work!

[@danoking69]

Government if fully to blame for loop holes for people to take advantage of. They had 9 years to fix it.

[@hanfucolorful9656]

They can fix it in 9 days, but business like to use forced labor, cheap and easy to be managed.

[@CraZY.pRIME.]

LOL it has been going on for a long time not just the last 9 years..

[@danoking69]

@@CraZY.pRIME. It's only been a significant problem because of this government and they're policies.

[@mahsa2651]

When a corrupt government aides and abets corrupt businesses and corporations. A win-win for them and us ordinary citizens get screwed.

[@lucianoantoniodangelo]

💯 %!

[@MisterPerson-fk1tx]

What's it called when government and industry are working together while ignoring the regular citizens? Think there's a term for systems like that.

[@brianyang3265]

​@@MisterPerson-fk1txas someone from China should I say "communism"

[@lufi3006]

It's big businesses that offers the good paying jobs.. we cant all work for the government

[@lucianoantoniodangelo]

@@MisterPerson-fk1tx is it monopoly?

[@ProBlueCheese]

All Temp agencies in canada should be Investigated !!!!! 🔎

[@Evilslayer73]

Shut down is the best solution

[@888Longball]

A friends kids couldn't get jobs except through family connection. I see them work. They are very hard working and have great attitudes. Yet, there are no jobs for them unless they know someone.

[@Plug604]

Agreed, they've taken away all the entry level positions and given them to foreign workers

[@krisrooney2283]

Sad it's it . When young Canadian kids can't find work 🤷

[@CaptainGeek5]

are they willing to work at a farm, mcdonalds or do food delivery? I dont think so! Locals don't want those jobs.

[@Plug604]

@@CaptainGeek5 you are wrong. Those are entry-level jobs, the children of the citizens that are here need those jobs to build skills. There are no entry level jobs, it's awful.

[@zachweyrauch2988]

That's how it was when I was a kid 20 years ago too.

[@TheStupidDetectiv]

Better send them home for their own safety and hire Canadians again. Just a thought.

[@krisrooney2283]

Totally agree 💯👍

[@NorthHollywood]

You think a Canadian would do that kind of work? HA!

[@NoahPARK82]

@@NorthHollywoodnope Canadians will smoke pot while working😂

[@karentoffan7027]

@@NoahPARK82 The childish emoji gives you away

[@chelsey1ize]

there's probably cash under the table and a network of headhunters with kickbacks dysfunctional immigration policies at work again Fire Miller and Fraser

[@UkrainianBullwinkle]

Make a law that says you have to pay foreign works 3 dollars more in minimum wage and watch the problem go away

[@CJMactaggartknits]

and no government subs. At this time the Federal Government pays 60% of the wage of the TFW's

[@TBA-zv9qt]

Close our borders now!

[@TrumpFacts-wl2ik]

We 🍁 already have a wall at our southern border, blocking the obsolete CP railway bridge at the whirlpool in Niagara Falls; so Americans can't sneak over the bridge. Short walls work!

[@jimf.]

@@TrumpFacts-wl2ik Hey , Trump 2024 MAGA!!!! Let's go Brandon. Fun facts for Liberals with TDS!

[@TrumpFacts-wl2ik]

@@jimf. TY Jim! Fun fact: Trump accepted $30 million from Russia in 2016 campaign. How could you possibly trust this guy, to act in your interest?

[@andrewwolkowich]

I worked at a factory in Ontario in Burlington were the plant manager would yell at workers do what you're told or I'll have you deported. He yelled at me once I said to him I was born here where the hell are you going to send me? probably 60% of all the people that worked in the plant were from Guyana

[@MlSTA_GREEN]

As a citizen, you're granted some very powerful rights. Never be afraid to use them.

[@jay1645]

For Guyenese wages ? lol

[@CanadianPhinsFan853]

Sounds made up but okay

[@laviothmartel9813]

Takes jobs from Canadians ...

[@1ABNDT]

These foreign workers send most of of their money back home, in turn taking money out of Canada's economy

[@krisrooney2283]

Exactly

[@aryangod2003]

@@krisrooney2283 THe idea you are proposing is Mercantalism, an idea that has been disproven for 200-400 years. Keeping money locked within a single community is a bad idea because it disrupts the natural flow of resources that drives economic efficiency and growth. Free markets thrive on the movement of capital to wherever it can be most productive, and restricting money can stifle specialization and competition, leading to higher prices and less innovation. When capital can't move freely, it also limits investment opportunities and economic growth, ultimately reducing the overall wealth and efficiency of the economy. This is Economics 101. Th

[@nitinprasad3842]

Seriously, first of all I am not a temp employee and I never was . He earned it he can do what ever he want with his money. Stop being so entitled. Just because you are born here that doesn't mean you deserve everything. Go and work hard .With this attitude even you won't hire your self.

[@CaptainGeek5]

did you not see the video? These are slaves not workers! Have some shame!

[@luannecorlett4683]

the money is sent back to their families,

[@user-buck-b7j]

The asylum seeker, temporary foreign workers and international student programs should be permanently shut down

[@jethawk9941]

Not like born and raised Canadians are struggling to find a job or anything

[@LiberateAlberta1907]

I've been looking for work for 6 months now!

[@បេះដូង-ឡ5ទ]

Sickening. Make me throw up, Canada.

[@NS-nb2fc]

Globalization is plantation II. Is that UN report say anything about Dubai temporary workers specially in construction?

[@CanadianPhinsFan853]

UN doesn't care about THOSE nations. UN let's China essentially slave various African countries... doesn't care. China produces like 60% of the world's pollution, yet Canadians pay a Carbon Tax.

[@kneelbeforethelord917]

And its destroying our jobs for younger people.

[@jacquelineriquelme1320]

This exists bc there are not enough Canadians willing to work on those jobs. So saying that Canadians are not being given this opportunity might be wrong

[@RippledProductions]

There are definitely enough Canadian workers. They just don't want to pay them when they can pay half the amount to TFWs

[@B-kl8vj]

I sense a national apology and billions in restitution.

[@frederickclause2694]

Won't happen. They only apologize for the actions of previous governments.

[@macleanclassics]

Yes, to Canadians

[@justadildeau]

Trillions even

[@Whatwouldjdo]

Just stop giving jobs to people immigrating. Give them back to locals.

[@MlSTA_GREEN]

Not sure why they only showed farm workers. Foreign STEM workers are expected to slave away too, and bring down all wages.

[@ethelbramston4882]

I am a teenager of the 50's in Canada and when I see what is going on now I am stunned. As teens we worked for our school money and our spending money. We picked strawberries (.5 cents/quart), picked beans (.25 cents a hamper), picked apples, potatoes, weeded the corn fields, worked in the cannery, etc. And no I did NOT live on a farm! And at the age of 85 I am still here and have no regrets over those years. I also made sure that my 2 children worked during their teens. I understand that parents today are over powered by guilt because they farm their children out at such a young age but, on the other hand jobs for teens no longer exist ie, pumping gas, grocery store bag handlers and so on and for sure teens are not going to work in the farm fields.....thats is why Canada brings in help from other countries and why so many of our teenagers are in trouble!

[@yukitakaoni007]

As Karl Marx predicted. The system intentionally created this situation so the worker would be fighting for a job with lesser pay.

[@A.O.K-Jamie]

Bye bye tim hortons. And quit charging 50 grand to the foreign worker to work for you!

[@Biggus-dickus0]

Our entire seafood market in Newfoundland will be gone and I’m all here for it, these poor people are living in squalor and coming to do some good for their families to live comfortably and they get nothing but screwed. Oe company I know takes the ei payments and tells them it’s a “bonus” when they get it back. Making them think their getting free money but never knowing they worked x amount of hours for it, it was always theirs. They make workers do 18 hours, get off at 12 am and back for 6 am, and if they don’t show up they’re sent back. It’s sad. Me and so many other people have reported it and nothing was ever done. Besides two of us being let go for budget cuts then being replaced by 5 foreign workers who they screw how ever they want.

[@Kirk1914]

No more immigration & no more bleeding heart media stories like this

[@luannecorlett4683]

poor baby, you probably couldn't do the work they do,

[@karentoffan7027]

@@luannecorlett4683 Why the F would he want to?

[@luannecorlett4683]

it's good enough for the people who come here, but it's beneath for kirk1914, right

[@hanfucolorful9656]

Delivery slavery to Canada, then, work as forced labor. 😮‍💨🙄😩😠😡

[@abcdedfg8340]

Why are we allowing these blatant violations of Canadian labor law and pushing these people into virtual slums to occur? If men are being exploited with wage theft or other violations, just imagine how vulnerable the women are when faced with difficulties at insecure jobs or finding affordable housing. What about the people who are working under the table for less than minimum wage. What happens to them if they get injured on the job, how are they supposed to afford to be able to pay rent without access to benefits? Why are the perpetrators not being fined, jailed, forced to compensate illegally exploited workers, or deported? Why are people not doing anything to protect first world standards? If we want to be productive, we have to learn from Europeans who are much more productive than even many Americans, with far better work life balance, and who do not tolerate these third world practices that absolutely destroy productivity through burnout as well as destroy the ability to raise a family or find affordable housing. Canadians have tolerated these exploitative and often illegal third world practices for too long. It is time to reject them, and adopt and enforce European labor standards which have been shown to generate higher productivity with much better work life balance and more affordable living costs for both newcomers and locals. Just my opinion.

[@ADebsLife]

thank you for covering this story

[@user-TommyD35]

The tempory worker program needs to stop. We need to give Canadians a chance to get that job. This program makes even getting an interveiw imposible. Because the job was already given to a worker that is from another country.

[@Roman_Octavius]

Uncontrolled migration was a major factor in Ancient Rome's downfall. History is repeating itself.

[@WinstonSmithRoom101]

This time on purpose thou, Psychopath bankers didn’t run the world back then.

[@TrumpFacts-wl2ik]

Hmm. I'm not sure you learned the correct lesson from the history of Rome.

[@Roman_Octavius]

@@TrumpFacts-wl2ik I just read more books than you, and I've been to Rome to learn about it.

[@TrumpFacts-wl2ik]

@@Roman_Octavius Oh yes? Did you get to see Pompeii?

[@danahenry8728]

Just like the way trucking companies will hire people fresh from a third world country so they don't have to pay the rightful wage for the economies most crucial industry. Our highways are so unsafe because of this practice

[@jg6264]

These ppl are not Canadian… giving them the same rights as Canadians have is NOT right. Just hire Canadians or force these buisness to work for themselves if they wanna save money.

[@TJames69]

Sounds like Trudeau’s dream come true 🥴

[@godfree.6967]

I've seen this myself at a job, worker were flown in from their country everything paid, but those workers worked for a month then took off in the middle of the night by 2 or 3 cabs an went to Ottawa. We then had the workers families calling us asking where they are an such, as if we would know considering they abandoned work an a free house to live in by workplace. Then they proceeded to demand their work visas or w.e an the boss ended up having to give them.

[@chrissingh4730]

Why can’t the Welfare Collectors do the job.

[@HaleyStevenson-db2je]

Larry Burkett's book on "Giving and Tithing" drew me closer to God and helped my spirituality. 2021 was a year I literally lived it. I cashed in my life savings and gave it all away. My total giving amounted to 30,000 dollars. Everyone thought I was delusional. Today, 1 receive 75,000 dollars every two months. I have a property in Calabasas, CA, and travel a lot. God has promoted me more than once and opened doors for me to live beyond my dreams. God kept to his promises to and for me

[@Nelsonparker-tl4sw]

There's wonder working power in following Kingdom principles on giving and tithing. Hallelujah!

[@MarySusan-rq1yh]

But then, how do you get all that in that period of time? What is it you do please, mind sharing?

[@HaleyStevenson-db2je]

It is the digital market. That's been the secret to this wealth transfer. A lot of folks in the US and abroad are getting so much from it, God has been good to my household Thank you Jesus

[@HaleyStevenson-db2je]

And thanks to my co-worker (Michael) who suggested Ms Susan Jane Christy

[@Jamiehonaker]

How can I start this digital market, any guidelines and how can I reach out to her?

[@bob-p7x6j]

so many Mexicans on tourist visas working illegaly in the Okanagan. Some on the bigger farms have the proper visas but met a lot who are on tourist visas and working full time...

[@flyinphil42]

Modern day Indentured servitude except no permanent residency, whereas indentured servitude had to do 5 years then they were free to go and get land of their own.

[@rsmbrushcutting5981]

Why are they coming here if it’s not good enough for them

[@sj7178]

It'd depend on the country of origin, some might be coming from places with civil wars or crime rates so high that even working here in bad conditions would be safer than where they come from. However, others would just be coming because the value of the CAD is higher than their home country's currency, thus resulting in them making more money even when underpaid (while also screwing over Canadian citizens who want to work for a fair minimum wage). In the end the people benefiting from this the most would be the scummy businesses who get to pay lower wages :(

[@DaKrawnik]

Sounds like something Canada would condone.

[@smokeymacpot76]

why would we condone it? we operate under the british monach colonial system who was the biggest slave trade owners EVER...not shocking at all

[@MisterPerson-fk1tx]

​​@@smokeymacpot76you missed the history class where they were the biggest drivers to abolish it. And the "ever" is a joke, you got nothing but emotion to back it that up. As horrible as it might sound, there was worse.

[@ZenCorvus]

Liberals and ndp voters love it

[@cad687]

Deported, deport, deport+

[@erikkorhonen]

lol you are kidding right? you are actual comparing this to slavery? the places these people come from have ACTUAL slavery

[@aavvcc]

Lol

[@coryr6359]

Slavery? maybe. but not in the way you'd think. Fundamentally, the way worker pay is determined under capitalism corresponds directly with market demand and labor demand. The mere idea of hiring TFW's to "fill in" when we have more than enough unemployed citizens looking for competitive wages, undermines the entire basis of capitalism as an economic system. Corporations LOBBY our governments to allow them to hire TFW's as a means of wage suppression, as they seek to add workers to the labor market with the goal of artificially lowering labor demand. There IS no labor shortage. Conceptually, when the capitalist cannot attract the workers they need, capitalism requires them to offer more money. Artificially "fixing" wage outcomes IS a form of slavery known as "wage slaver". Canadians have become enslaved by capitalists due to the wage suppression tactics that impoverish them. When the government yields to lobbyist pressure to actively oppress people, it is corruption in the highest degree. On the other hand, TFW's are OFFERED these positions, and they ACCEPT them. This is not slavery. They are seeking an advantage outside of their own countries economy. Abusive? Absolutely. and the owners/corporations should be held responsible.

[@DragutinJ]

Oh! Really? Nice Canadians are exploiting slaves. Nooo! That is not tru! Canadians are nice, polite, friendly. They pay well. Even very well. Canada is great country to dream Canadian dream.

[@tulip19710226]

As I agree give these jobs to the unemployed and pay them a living wage sorry but a lot of our unemployed in Canada are lazy and not sure where you live but I know where I live no student is going to spend the summer working on farms. Along with the fact that our produce is already getting so expensive it will only get more unaffordable if we pay people to pick our fruits and vegetables a living wage .. I don't disagree as I think there are so many jobs out there that we should putting the unemployed to work and stop paying them benefits to stay home and do nothing.

[@laloops]

Why do they come here to work? I don't know much about this, but if it's so bad for them then why do they come here?

[@catherinejenkins2284]

Odd I worked at a greenhouse for cannabis. The Jamaican outsourced workers owned their own house in front of the greenhouse. They paid pittance to cover the mortgage and taxes, as the entire house is converted to rooms, and shared bathrooms and kitchens. They sent the majority of their money home, none of them seemed like they were slaves. They seemed like they lived way better than me who had to commute almost an hour to work and barely afford the hotel I was staying in cause of my rennoviction....🙄

[@yukonadventurexc]

As a Englishman and someone who didn't need to come to Canada but was hired due to lack of skilled workers here is my take. I was a fomer temporary worker on a closed work permit and got permanent residence through a PNP. The issue isn't the program the issue is how many immigrants their are competing for jobs. As a store manager 2 years ago the program helped me be succesful and keep hires while i stuggled for staff. Now I'm in a better position and have way too many immigrants applying looking for a way to stay in Canada. These all have the same qualifications, degrees which mean nothing to the service sector, some experience in retail/food or security but offer little else to what my sector needs. The program neefs to be stricter and stop letting so many people to study here in fields which are not needed or offer little to the economy. I know if this program was taken away my City would stuggle again.

[@nonasmith2405]

In my point of view, the sad thing is that once they become permanent residents the businesses allowed to hire new group of temporary foreign workers claiming they can't get workers because they cannot make money by paying normal wages Yet they reapply year after year and get more so not having skilled workers is in my opinion a ruse

[@ianhowes8141]

At least foreign workers are prepared to work for a living, rather than just occupy a job position like many canadians! Oh, and by the way, the UN needs to mind its own F'ing business.

[@Backtoreality1873]

Global. Completely clueless.

[@Machoman-mp3hm]

Just stop this mafia hire locals.

[@shanephillips4011]

Really? Slave labour? Give it a rest. Are we heading abroad and rounding up folks to do our bidding? Or are they coming willingly? The issues are the loopholes that allow foreign folk to undercut Canadian citizens, due to lower pay rates. The world's poor being willing to work for scraps shouldn't be surprising....

[@whatdoyouwantfromme1029]

We are all slaves in Canada,🤷🏻‍♂️ we don't even get enough money to pay for basics 😑👎🏻

[@aavvcc]

💯

[@TrumpFacts-wl2ik]

Or, you should have stayed in school.

[@whatdoyouwantfromme1029]

@@TrumpFacts-wl2ik" is not what we know but who we know" 👈🙂

[@lufi3006]

That's because your lib Ndp great government caused everything to go up very fast nobody owes you anything

[@VivaLableue]

As a Canadian-born Jamaican, the conditions on these farms that my people live in just to get some money for their loved ones back home is DESPICABLE.

[@CoffeeCup1346]

It's also depressing wages, IMO. But without the "closed" status of these work permits, the appeal of the program falls apart. It's expensive to bring in these TFW's, but it's not all about the money - instead it's often the CONTROL that a business craves, more than anything.

[@TheRHIM]

This should never be allowed. Pay people…not just the workers but the farmers so they can hire people.

[@shawnb8658]

Close our borders!

[@Sam-d8o6q]

If they did then how would we get our cheap shopping in the US 😂

[@CanadianPhinsFan853]

Yes

[@CMBiggin]

Employers are using the program to hire people at a lower rate, and not hire Canadians. My son was unemployed for a year. He would apply to posted job ads, but the company wouldn’t interview anyone. They only posted the job ads because that is the only requirement to then hire TFWs. The program needs more restrictions and oversight.

[@Mack697]

Yeah that's right I think the best way is to invest with a professional, at least it saves the trauma of too much losses,,

[@goodcitizen5305]

Domt come to Canada. Don't be disappointed.

[@markprice3200]

This is very one sided. The question i have is why workers come freely from other countries to work in Canada. No one is forced to be involved in the foreign workers program. Being a farmer for 50 years and being involved in the foreign exchange program for thirty years i can truly say there is no salvary on my farm. Very important to understand how much the money these men make here in Canada help their families to live a better live back home. And i am talking about food , housing , medical etc. not luxury. All my workers over the years have been so thankful for how much better their families lives have improved back home. Enjoy your food today. Without the foreign workers you wouldn't have it. I know i farm. God bless 🙏

[@TrumpFacts-wl2ik]

Question - are these workers paid at least minimum wage, for all the hours they work? Or are they paid a fixed amount for the contract?

[@mikeeddington1803]

Canada's foreign worker program is basically a way for businesses to pay low wages instead of forcing them to compete for workers that are already citizens or permanent residents by paying living wages.

[@joywebster2678]

The agricultural TFW pick grapes in the wine industries, and now work on farms. As a teen in the 1970s the farm work, haying, and such was open to my city classmates who'd sign on for 3 weeks heavy labour. But what Toronto teens are going to live in a shack and bale hay in 2024? Or teens used to go north and p,ant trees after lumber companies took out trees,, or after forest fires to stop landslides. Hmm yeah not up our current teens type of work. Sadly the hovt IS hiring TFW for forklift jobs...now there is a skill the unrmployed could be taught, and hired for, rather than dragging people over from India to drive forklifts inside factories.

[@nonasmith2405]

Yes in my opinion it is and 600000 a year temporary foreign workers which are promised perminant resident status then every year 600,000 new temporary foreign workers mean 600,000 jobs lost to Canadians who are desperately looking in addition to over 416,000 new immigrants per year who also need work a million a year we cannot sustain this Look at Alberta an increase of over a million people over last 4 years and no infrastructure increase to accommodate in medical system jobs or housing resulting in people dying waiting for doctors and hospitals and a significant increase in homelessness food bank use and Calgary has second highest unemployment rate in Canada. Not fair to newcomers or Canadians. I believe lack of insight by both Provincial and Federal governments is killing people.

[@CJMactaggartknits]

YES. HAve you seen the case load at the Medical clinics and Labs for Immigration. It's GROSS. You sit for 2 years for help on waiting lists. That's if you can even get a Doctor to look at you.

[@longbeach225]

Companies want to pay third world wages but charge first world prices.

[@proudlycanadian3581]

No kidding, major companies have been profiting from this for decades. Canadians should be ashamed of allowing companies to increase their profits off the back of new Canadians.

[@northboy7996]

They are not new canadians they are only given the opportunity to make foreign currency in our country. Thats it. If its a problem than they shouldnt do it or we shouldnt offer it but stop treating people like babies. They are adults Come here n work and leave Or dont Its a contract not a obligation bro Dont take advantage of canadian hospitality

[@hchalz]

Where is Freeland when you need her? Only Freeland can slam United Nations effectively with her outstanding talking skills.

[@terryfoote381]

Two years ago, employers were desperate for help, positions could not be filled locally. As for working conditions you can be sure that will be addressed. The work world is an awfully difficult environment to navigate these days. Harassment prevention training is next on this list. It should become mandatory for each and every employer and employee to participate.

[@terryfoote381]

That goes for Pierre Poilievre's, he's got quite some racket going on.

[@grantsampson776]

Remember: the business owners would pay the rest of us slave wages too, if they thought they could get away with it. These people should be paid more, not just on moral grounds; But because their mistreatment is a foot in the door towards *our* mistreatment.

[@lucianaandrade6628]

Finally someone understood that this is Canada’s biggest economic activity. 1st world country my a**

[@northboy7996]

Is 1st world some sort of validation for why you are here?? Canada is not a 1st world country or a second world or 3rd world Its a canadian country with canadian people in a canadian world. So yea please take your first world expectation latte with you while i have my canadian world maple syrup and beer 😉

[@adrian-gr8hg]

This makes me sick. Nothing more despicable than taking advantage of those with less.

[@Maddie2u]

Their choice...we don't even want foreign workers ..... Canadian dollar goes much further in their country, they do ok.

[@CanadianPhinsFan853]

Nothing more despicable than screwing over your own Countrymen and giving our jobs and money to anything other than Canadians.

[@adamfriedland4373]

We need to hold the politicians accountable

[@nsd3371]

I hate people who only blame immigrants for this. Put yourself in their shoes and think about if you would have made the move as well if the Canadian government was so lenient. Its the business owners we should be going for...

[@lufi3006]

The UN should stay out of our business

[@allanhijeherrera]

I had an experience when I was TFW here, they can decide / employer less than 40 hrs a week, or they can decide you to work in a fix shift for 6hrs and two days off in a week. Thankfully I pushed myself to apply my Permanent Residency so I had my decision for myself to find a more deserving job and treatment in my past job here in Canada.

[@JogBird]

they chose to come here

[@unconsciouscreator3012]

Not all do, many end up being owned by basically temp agencies who send them from country to country. Most are already screwed and did not choose to come to the frozen outhouse hole known as Canada

[@TrumpFacts-wl2ik]

... again and again, multiple years and contracts.

[@Evilslayer73]

Robotization of agriculture is the key it gonna cost less instead of keeping the third world at our expenses

[@bigbc5293]

Youth unemployment is because they don't want to work. I have seen it first hand. When I was a kid in the 90s we all had jobs in my community my two oldest kids had jobs but not one of their friends had an after school job or weekends but their parents buy them everything they want the school I work at the students have nicer cars than the staff. All of the employers here can't find students to work even paying well above the minimum wage which is 17 dollars an hour now. People need foreign workers but they don't need to treat them poorly those employers that do that shouldn't have to pay fines but they should have their assets seized then those cheap buggers will stop.

[@animalsvillagelife]

Alot of the youth today think being loud and rude is a virtue.

[@winstonsmith935]

ask them what life is like in Africa, or the Middle East.

[@oldsingingstudentdougbillf1665]

Here we go again…crying like the idiots that we are! Pay properly and maybe Canadians would take these jobs! They can stay home and work…can’t they?

[@1ABNDT]

The Unelected Nations should concentrate on foreign aid dollars going to UNRWA who the funds Hamas

[@Maddie2u]

United Nations is a complete joke, time to let it go.

[@WinstonSmithRoom101]

as long as it doesn’t go to Israhell.

[@uhuihiuhuihi]

I'd be content with the aid money that we send to both staying here in Canada and helping Canadians instead.