ISN'T HYPOCRISY GRAND?

Today's Waterloo Region Record carrys more of the same crap. The original headline was "Immigrants face strict occupational licensing requirements". The updated headline which you will see if you click on this one tells a more accurate tale. Essentially professional bodies which have control over their own certification standards have long made sure that they were exempt from competition from incoming immigrants. Apparently it's O.K. for the masses to have their wages, benefits and job security reduced via competition but please don't ask our professionals to share the pain.

I've been reading articles literally since the 80's extolling the virtues of Canada constantly bringing in literally hundreds of thousands of immigrants per year. I've seen crap suggesting that native born Canadians somehow aren't trainable for certain trades and I've seen nonsense that we can't possibly train enough doctors, nurses or special flavour of the month professionals. The truth is that certain small special interests within our society including developers make a fortune by having ever expanding construction of homes and markets. Labour of course is just a commodity when you are a well off manufacturer or industrialist. Supply and demand rule, and if you increase the supply of labour you tend to lower wages.

Our professional groups want it both ways. They want ever increasing markets but thank you very much lets keep the supply of skilled labour eligible for the professions at a minimum. This includes licensing requirements making it prohibitive or impossible for even well qualified immigrants to set up shop in competition to the established clique. This is the hypocrisy behind Canada's all inclusive, egalitarian society.