Stephen Punwasi π️ππ☃️ on X - "Toronto has 310k unemployed people actively looking for work but none of these companies could find local labor. What’s the term for this? Immigration something… on the tip of my tongue. Slam? No, that can’t be it."
Stephanie Heyens on X - "This is exactly why none of teenagers in my neighborhood- including my own sons - have been unable to find summer and after school jobs for the past 3 yrs."
Cheap foreign labour soars in Canada as young workers are left jobless - "Entry-level jobs for students and recent graduates are much harder to find as the economy weakens, yet the country has also imported hundreds of thousands of temporary foreign workers for jobs, many of them in the food and retail sectors. That’s contributing to a soaring rate of youth unemployment. Two years ago, the jobless rate for people 15 to 24 years old was a little over 9%. Now it’s 14.2% — the highest level in more than a decade outside of the Covid-19 pandemic. For younger immigrants — those who’ve landed in Canada in the past five years — the unemployment rate is around 23%. An analysis of government data by Bloomberg News shows explosive growth in the number of temporary foreign workers in food and retail over the past five years. The number of them approved to work in those two sectors jumped 211% between 2019 and 2023. The rapid surge is partly fueled by the increase in demand for immigration to Canada after pandemic travel restrictions eased. Many newcomers saw these temporary jobs as a step to help gain permanent residency, and many employers relied on the program when the economy reopened. Business lobby groups have argued the temporary foreign worker program — originally designed to help farmers deal with seasonal labor needs — is critical to fill vacant positions. But in cities like Toronto, the state of the labor market is undermining their case. Canada’s largest metropolis is hardly short of young, available workers. The region had more than 120,000 unemployed people aged 15 to 24 as of July — an increase of 50% in just two years, according to Statistics Canada data. “We’ve noticed more youths are coming to us partially because of the influx of new Canadians,” said Timothy Lang, chief executive officer of Youth Employment Services, which helps young Toronto residents get training and find jobs. “Sadly, some companies will take people with more experience so they’re knocking some youths out.”... Collectively, major restaurant and retail chains make up the biggest group of employers using the program to hire these types of workers, but their reliance on the system is impossible to quantify due to the rampant use of numbered companies in government data. In Ontario alone, Tim Hortons hired at least 714 temporary foreign workers last year, up from 58 in 2019. But some 92% of those positions in 2023 were listed under holding companies that didn’t bear the franchise name. The use of the program may not only be making it harder for youths to get jobs but also suppressing wages for the entry-level positions where they compete with foreign workers. “In a sense what we’re doing is we’re subsidizing those activities by allowing them to bring in low-wage workers rather than make them pay a competitive wage,” said Christopher Worswick, economics department chair at Carleton University in Ottawa, who co-wrote a peer-reviewed report showing firms prefer temporary foreign workers due to their higher efforts for the same wage. “Wages should go up until labor supply equals labor demand,” Worswick said. “Labor shortages should be filled by wage increases. The only thing stopping a wage increase is the profitability of the firm.”"
Business Groups Condemn Trudeau's Modest Reduction In Foreign Workers - "A letter sent to three of Trudeau’s cabinet ministers on August 1st, signed by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, warns that Ottawa’s planned reduction in temporary immigration could have “catastrophic economic consequences” for the business sector. The letter was written by Nancy Healey, who holds a government post called Commissioner for Employers... The claim that Canada is currently experiencing a labour shortage is particularly audacious, since it is now widely accepted that population growth is outpacing job growth – this has even been stated by the Bank of Montreal (BMO)... Meanwhile, the views of the Canadian public continue to harden, with a poll from Research Co. finding that 44% of respondents think immigration is having a mostly negative effect on Canada – up 6% from last year. Only 42% said they believed immigration is having a mostly positive effect – down 3%."
Meme - ">Be me
>fucking jeets next door (townhouse, shared wall)
>jeets doing jeet things like having *FUCKING FIRES ON THEIR LIVING ROOM FLOOR*
>Jeetery setting off smoke detector
>City refuses to do anything
>3 times a day the jeet has fires or incense going
>once a day the jeet will ring bells for 30mins at a time
>go on amazon
>purchase concrete shaker
>create picrelated
>connect Jeetshaker to smartplug
>research noise laws in city
>noise can't be more frequent than every 60mins, cant last longer than 10mins
>Create Homeassistant(smarthome) rule to turn on concrete shaker every 61 mins for 9mins
>Rule has exception for when house is occupied (alarm state must =armed-away)
Every time we leave the house the jeets have their entire house shake hourly.
Jeets moved
Video of the jeetshaker in action: https://streamable.com/vr99ap
Dear Anon, I've done my part. How are you protecting Canada from the Jeet Scourge? What are the political implications of a coordinated Anti-Jeet movement in Canada?"
Meme - "White South African family's refugee bid rejected, accused of boosting case with 'racist propaganda'"
Justin Trudeau: "When we embrace our differences & come together to welcome newcomers, we strengthen our communities. #WithRefugees"
Justin Trudeau: "To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength #WelcomeToCanada"
The Pleb π¨π¦ Reporter on X - "Indian and Khalistan supporters clash in the streets of Surrey, BC. Canadian Police resources are once again being wasted on people arguing in our streets over conflicts from the other side of the planet I didn't sign up for this. This is not Canadian."
'Go back to India': Pro-Khalistan protesters disrupt India Day Parade in Canada : r/canada - "So Indians are telling other Indians to go back to India? Damn, even racism has been outsourced to Indians."
"You must be new Indians hate other Indians source I’m Indian"
"I live in Brampton. If there’s one thing I learned about the south Asian community is Indians are racist to their own kind."
"Welcome to Canada, where our visible minorities are also racist against other visible minorities, and even the same visible minorities. Makes you wonder, at what point did we go wrong with this Multiculturalism idea?"
"We went wrong when we decided that repsecting someone's values is the same as respecting someone's culture."
"The moment I started hearing people unironically say we should not have freedom of expression, I knew we were in for a bad time."
"Don't forget accepting citizens of horrendous regimes as well as well off supporters of horrendous regimes."
"Didn't you know all cultures are equal? Even the ones that oppress women and openly endorse slavery and killing of the gays... :P"
"Integration for first gen immigrants doesn't really exist. You can't reasonably expect a foreign adult to navigate a new cultural environment with ease. However, it works better when the stream of immigrants is a trickle (or from a similar culture), not a biblical flood like Canada did, so they don't form ethnic enclaves which leads to nepotism and parallel societies."
"Did you miss the memo that only white people can be racist? Or should I say non-"equity-deserving groups". (A pretty disgusting term. Way to go Dalhousie University! You certainly have fallen far.)
Indigenous Persons Persons of Black/African Descent Racialized Persons Persons with Disabilities Women 2SLGBTQIA+"
"They could save a lot of characters and just say "straight white male bad"."
"There's this joke once heard in a corporate elevator... For an Indian, the idea of diversity means hiring a Pakistani"
'Go back to India': Pro-Khalistan protesters disrupt India Day Parade in Canada : r/canada - ""First Post Nationalist Country" in real time. God forbid we'd ever need to fight a war, who would enlist when you don't have any Nationialism? Guess they'd have to fire up the old conscription lotto balls like the US did in Vietnam."
'Go back to India': Pro-Khalistan protesters disrupt India Day Parade in Canada : r/canada - "As a brown woman who came here 12 years ago I can agree it’s already so awful for me! People stare at you like they have never seen a woman in their life. This shit these protests are why India and Canada are having bad relationship. Canada brings all these freak shows. Even India doesn’t want them why the hell do we have to deal with this shit!"
'Go back to India': Pro-Khalistan protesters disrupt India Day Parade in Canada : r/canada - "I know you kind of asked that question rhetorically, but I'm going to answer it honestly. I came here as an immigrant about 30 years ago. Whatever the law said about multiculturalism, 'we' viewed Canada as a 'British' country. English speaking, white culture... I faced my share of racial issues and this and that. Most of us did. I remember many of my Sikhs friends removing their turban; I'd say out of social pressure. People tried to fit in. I would say integration largely happened because numbers were small enough and there was a dominant 'Canadian' culture Sometime in the 90s, it became more socially acceptable to keep your ways. It still largely functioned because Canada was pretty selective about it's immigrants. Most were 'educated, city' people of other countries. Then around 2010?, there became a real movement to embrace other cultures. You weren't just 'allowed' to keep your ways. It was embraced. There was also a change where we started increasing immigration and getting all kinds of people in mass numbers. I'm going to use some 'progressive' language here that is not my own, but I think it is the best language to use. Hilary used the word 'deplorables' to refer to those 'white' Americans who are not part of the global urban class. They still think in tribalism and 'their' country and this and that. Let's just use that word as that is how it is actually used. What we have done in recent history is start importing deplorables from the rest of the world. The brown deplorables. The African deplorables. The Muslim deplorables. The Sikh deplorables. The Hispanic deplorables. In some progressives head, this is 'fair' because what 'right' does a white deplorable have to life in Canada. Every deplorable can come here. Here's the problem. If 'deplorables' are the problem for progressives, this is only going to make the situation worse. Because deplorables still think in tribalism and now we've just created a powder keg of deplorables from different cultures/religions and they are going to fight it out. If you only had white deplorables and kept immigration mainly for the global urban class, you might be able to keep Canada okay. You'd have a legacy white deplorable class you'd still have to deal with, but that would be it. But now you're pitting all the deplorables against each other in Canada and that's a powder keg. We 'immigrants' know about this. We know the deplorables of all groups don't get along and they will fight. Heck, many of us came to Canada to flee such conditions of tribalism. We hate to see this stuff here more than most Canadians, as Canadians have never really lived in tribal conflict in a long time. They don't really get this stuff and I'd say are grossly naive on people getting along. I should say, I don't view people as deplorables. I'm just using progressive language here. This is going to blow up in their face big time. Canada is going to pay a hard price. They're going to need massive freedom infringing measures to keep the different groups of deplorables from fighting each other... as happens in every country."
"I grew up in multicultural Toronto (as a 'white Canadian'), and it was obvious to me from childhood on. Like, the vast majority of racism I saw was from various immigrant groups against other immigrant groups. In my school, Tamils vs. Sinhala. East Indians looking down on West Indians (Trinis, Guyanese). The worst string of racism I ever heard in public was from a (drunk, I believe) black elderly Trini woman going off on a wild tirade about Chinese and Indians in an aisle at Food Basics. The Hong Kongers or other diaspora Chinese talking shit about uncouth mainlanders. Various Latin Americans teasing other Latin Americans about their differences (over my head). One of my best friends is a Christian Indian (Mangolorean, IYKYK), and while he himself was pretty secular and rolled his eyes a lot, some of his family I met had a lot of dirt to dish out about devil-worshipping Hindus, and naturally they do not like Modi. (His wife is another immigrant from a totally different corner of the world, and religion, too), In my early 20s, I had a black co-worker (and friend) who was called an N-word (not the cool rap variant, definitely the -er ending) -- by a black customer. She had made a small mistake at the till and this customer, again herself a black woman, blew up at her. Not that I never heard racism from white people, but this was only ever from 'small town' or rural people, and was the usual idiotic racist remarks about bad driving or food or dress. And honestly, at least in my experience, was not rampant. I guess if you grew up in a small town, it'll be different. I know in some places anti-indigenous racism is rife. But like I said, in multi-cultural suburban Toronto (416), I almost never heard it from other white people."
Time to blame white people again
Since 2015, less than 1 percent of permanent residents admitted to Canada have been through the Federal Skilled Trades Program - "The Hub recently reported on Canada’s shortage of skilled trades workers, with the manufacturing sector shortages estimated to have cost the economy $13 billion in 2022. Canada has recently put emphasis on providing permanent residency to the highly educated, while “skilled trades have really been dropped” among the government’s permanent residency priorities, according to an HR manager who participated in a 2023 study on Canada’s express entry system and labour market... “By focusing on high skilled immigrants [in granting permanent residency],… we’re neglecting an important and critical part of our economy,” said an immigration lawyer in the same study."
Clearly, you cannot build more housing without more Tim Hortons minimum wage workers
The sudden rise of temporary foreign workers in entry-level office jobs - The Globe and Mail - "The TFW program has soared in use over the past few years, including more recruitment of low-wage workers in hospitality, construction and other fields. But this trend has brought greater scrutiny to the program, particularly as the unemployment rate has risen and some groups — notably young people and recent immigrants — have struggled to find jobs. The federal government has said it’s trying to scale back the TFW program, and earlier this week, it announced a pause in using it to hire certain low-wage workers in the Montreal region. Abdullah Balal, a licensed immigration consultant in Oakville, Ont., questioned why employers needed to look outside the country for admin workers. “How is a Canadian company in an urban or semi-urban area not able to find an administrative assistant?” Mr. Balal said this surge of admin work likely includes cases of fraud, in which temporary residents pay employers for jobs, often so they can stay in the country longer and have a better shot at obtaining permanent residency. The federal government has acknowledged the existence of fraud in the program. Kerry Molitor, a licensed immigration consultant in St. Catharines, Ont., said that administrative assistant roles are highly desirable for temporary residents because they have a relatively low barrier to entry, but still allow people to qualify for the Express Entry pool of immigration candidates. “I don’t think there is a labour shortage for admin assistants,” Ms. Molitor said. “Maybe in the more rural areas. But in places like Toronto and Vancouver, I just don’t see it.”"
The sudden rise of temporary foreign workers in entry-level office jobs : r/canada - "The other thing I keep hearing are locals not getting any response when applying to hundreds of job openings. Thinking maybe companies are opening them, ignoring responses, then using them as ‘proof’ of not being able to fill needs locally. Just a hunch."
"No, that’s exactly what’s happening. Someone on r/UBC just found out that a bunch of businesses on campus were hiring servers/food service workers instead of the university students on campus. All of the job postings were on sites no ones ever heard of. What is “aboriginaljobs.ca” or “newcomers jobs.ca” or “canjobs.ca”. All the jobs show up if you just search “Business name LMIA”. It’s insane."
"When we got a tim's in our reservation I expected it to be filled with Mi'kmaq workers. Nope, half of them were foreigners."
"Yes, that's 100% happening. My teens have been applying for months and they can't even get an interview for a single minimum wage job in fast food or retail. Meanwhile, our local Walmart, McDonald's, A&W, Tim Hortons is now almost exclusively staffed by international students and TFWs from India. Here's an example of what they're up against: In my city, all the McDonald's locations in my area are owned by the same guy. He registered a company name here, and owns the franchises within that company umbrella. The guy's name appears to be of Indian heritage. When I've gone through the drive-through at his locations, every single staff member looks and sounds like they're from India. There is zero diversity, as one might expect based on the Canadian population. One of his locations posted a part-time job. My teen is looking for a permanent part-time position and would be delighted with the opportunity to work at McDonald's for minimum wage. My teen submitted their resume online the same morning the job was posted. Then my teen followed up by applying in person, literally within hours of the job posting. Their resume is on point. They are well-spoken. They customize their cover letter and resume for every job application. But strangely, the manager told me teen they're not hiring. WTF? They literally posted the job mere hours before. My teen isn't Indian. I can only conclude that it's intentional that they exclusively hire people from India, and if so, that's racist. Canada is diverse and hiring ONLY people who seem to be newcomers from India is discriminatory. And I'd say the same thing if they only hired blondes from Sweden."
"Why not use the same resume, change the name to something Indian-sounding and see if any progress is made. If so, you can make a huge complaint on the basis of racial discrimination."
"India is a huge country, you specifically need a Punjabi last name to make it through the pile. $10 bucks says a South Indian name would get tossed with everyone else."
"I've actually done this for a corporate job and did get traction. They started speaking to me in whatever language and when I couldn't respond they said the position is filled and hung up. This was years ago I can't even imagine what it's like now."
"Exactly what will happen. They'll speak to you in Punjabi and realize you're a bullshitter. And good luck learning on being fluent in that like you need to be fluent in French for a job interview in Quebec. Duolingo only teaches Hindi and not Punjabi."
"No, I won't open that can of worms because I'm not in a position to be able to afford all the uninformed accusations of racism that will follow in the offline world. And my teen doesn't want to open that can of worms either. We need a major news organization like CBC to take this on and expose it. They could send people in undercover and see what happens. That'll provide the proof that's needed."
"Indians actually do this to us. If you notice on Canadian job sites now, it often asks your “legal name” and “known as name”. The Indians know businesses that don’t want to be invaded by them and their shitty work ethic / poor communication skills will skip over their resume with a name like Hardeep Signhamasomethingorother. But if they change their name to “known as” and get an interview under the name Anthony Roberts. Then when they show up, its super awkward because the employer knows they don’t want to hire this person, but also don’t want to be accused of being discriminatory. So Anthony Roberts gets hired, with minimal shifts. Anthony Roberts doesn’t even have the proper experience for the job. This is Canada."
Joe Adam George: Terror arrests show risk of taking in large numbers of poorly vetted Gazans - "In a sensational domestic terrorism case, late last month, the RCMP arrested an ISIS-inspired father-son duo who were allegedly plotting to carry out a mass casualty attack in Toronto. It was later revealed that Canadian authorities had inexplicably permitted the father to immigrate to Canada and granted him citizenship, despite allegedly appearing in an ISIS propaganda video in which he is seen dismembering a prisoner. While this grave lapse in our immigration system has understandably raised serious questions about Ottawa’s security screening process, it should come as no surprise that Canada has traditionally been a “safe haven” for terrorists and criminals who exploit the shortcomings of our country’s liberal immigration policies and go on to become citizens . Immigration officials have generally struggled to locate and deport individuals accused of serious criminal offences, let alone adequately vet them before they arrive in the country. In 1994, Ahmed Ressam , an Algerian-born al-Qaida terrorist, entered Canada under false pretext and claimed refugee status. He went on to commit numerous crimes, draw welfare benefits and easily evade deportation by creating a false identity as a Canadian citizen with a Canadian passport. Ressam was later arrested by U.S. authorities in 1999, on his way to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport. Last year, a government audit found that Ottawa allowed nearly half of more than 7,000 foreign nationals who were flagged for serious security concerns to take up residency in this country between 2014 and 2019. With Canada under siege from soaring antisemitism and Islamist radicalization , the Trudeau government’s decision to offer temporary residence , for up to three years, to 5,000 Palestinians has many Canadians worried... In addition to expressing widespread support for Hamas and the atrocities of October 7, the deep-rooted antisemitic and anti-western views among the Gazan population are well-documented... Although the governments of Israel and Egypt are assisting Ottawa with this initiative, an Israeli government official, who requested anonymity, admitted to me that they had “obvious security concerns about Canada taking people out of Gaza.” A Canadian MP familiar with the Gaza program told me that even though the Palestinians may have cleared the security process, there is no way of really knowing “what is in their hearts,” and whether they will end up being potential threats to Canada or its allies. It is worth pointing out that, following the October 7 attacks, Canada has taken in the most Palestinians — 987 are presumed to have travelled to Canada as of April 30, according to Miller — while the wealthy Middle Eastern states continue to refuse Palestinians entry."
Canada not 'engulfed' in antisemitism — for the most part, study says - "a study that came out earlier this month on Canadian attitudes toward Jews and Israel by University of Toronto sociologist Robert Brym. He found, through surveys taken in early 2024, that Canadians with the most negative sentiments towards Jews were Muslims, Quebecers and non-Jewish university students... Anyone who’s had an eye on the post-Oct. 7 protests could hypothesize something similar. In Toronto, regular marches have loudly proceeded through the streets, with Arabic speakers and signs and marshalls who hold up the Qur’an. Universities have been home to similar protests. The data on Muslims — taken from a survey sample of more than 300 — shows distinct distrust and negativity towards Jews. For example, only five per cent of Canadian non-Jews reported believing that “Jewish people are largely to blame for the negative consequences of globalization” — among Muslims, this figure rose to 48 per cent. Eighty-three per cent of non-Jewish Canadians disagreed that Jews have too much power in the country; Only 34 per cent of Muslims believed the same... The discussion as to why is more interesting. Brym believes that the Israel-Hamas war plays a part — surveys elsewhere in the world show that Muslims’ negative sentiments towards Jews rise whenever war breaks out. But he also points to local factors: of Canada’s religious groups, Jews are the highest earners and are the least impoverished, while Muslims earn the least and are impoverished the most. Nearly two-thirds of Muslims, but less than one-third of Jews, are immigrants. And on average, Canadian Muslims are much younger than Canadian Jews. Both groups are quite urbanized, which adds additional pressure: “Real estate prices have soared in recent years, placing the dream of owning a house out of reach of many young people, especially, of course, those in less favourable economic circumstances, such as Muslims on average,” Brym notes. It all seems rather predictable in hindsight. It would follow that an influx of people who are more likely to hold negative attitudes towards Jewish Canadians would cause these sentiments to be more pronounced in society. Especially so if that society’s economy doesn’t bring about prosperity. Of Canada’s 1.8 million Muslims, about half immigrated in 2011 or later, according to Statistics Canada. Canadian authorities weren’t interested in the values-in-immigration-policy conversation back then, nor did they spare a thought for how the tightening housing market and declining prospects of the young would squeeze new immigrants and exacerbate social tensions... What matters is ensuring newcomers to Canada understand that sectarian violence is wrong, wherever they come from and whatever their religious background. Those who did try to start a conversation about this did so poorly: in 2016, Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch proposed to screen immigration applicants for Canadian values. Only, she didn’t demonstrate a need for such a policy, her communication was awkward and her campaign ended in colossal failure. She was scorned by the media, the political left and even her leadership competitors... Survey results on university students seemed about as predictable. Non-Jews in school had greater negative sentiments towards Jews and Israel than the rest of the non-Jewish Canadian population. Universities aren’t “hotbeds of antisemitism,” says Brym, but the results called into question the idea that higher education increases tolerance for others. It’s really not surprising at all. Universities, especially in the past decade, have increasingly leaned towards activism, away from free inquiry. They sound off on social issues; they promote the ideology of “anti-oppression”; at the University of Guelph, they’ve even started an “activist-in-residence” program. They often teach that colonialism is morally indefensible, that those of European ancestry are born with mystical social power and that indigeneity is the only legitimate foundation for nationhood... Conservatives — including mainstream party supporters, as well as “hard-right” self-identifiers — were the least negative on Jews and Israel"
Weird. We keep being told that it's just "anti-Zionism". Clearly Muslims are too ignorant to know that what they really hate is "Zionists", not Jews. And the right needs to realise that it's really anti-Semitic
Brattani on X - "Am I reading this correctly? He arrived here at the age of 33 to attend “Niagara college”. Now he’s 40 old and has been a delivery driver for the past 7 years. He had a nursing degree in India but decided to study it again at Niagara college? Was this to get his foot into Canada? He drove his car as an illegal taxi for members of “the international student community” they are now a “community” lol. And how does one attend class full time and still manage to drive 130,000 km a year? That is 356 km a day every single day of the year without a day off. So India lost a nurse, Canada gained a delivery driver. Is this how we build an economy? Did he have commercial insurance for all that driving? I’m sure he’s a nice guy but we do not build a country based on someone’s likability. Every PR card and passport handed off to students have to be investigated. The people who run these colleges need to be tried for treason."
Niagara Falls, Ont., man put 1 million km on his car. He wants to drive 1 million more
