CANADIAN GOVERNMENT'S ABUSE OF OUR YOUNG

Today's Woolwich Observer carrys the following Editorial by Steve Kannon "Drop TFWs while young people struggle for jobs". Well it's bloody about time that some newspaper spoke to this outrage. TFWs are Temporary Foreign Workers and this federal program has been abused by employers and politicians for years. The employers want the cheapest most subservient labour they can possibly get and the Conservative government are all about the ideology behind bringing in foreign workers. This ideology for years has been the "Oh Canadians won't do the dirty jobs. Canadians won't do the heavy, hot work in the summertime." I'm sure our government, if they could bring in Eskimos, would also be saying that Canadians are such wimps they won't work outdoors in the winter. The reality is and always has been that immigrants and TFWs are here to provide cheap, non-union labour. They are here to keep downward pressure on wages and unions. They are not remotely here for any kind of humanitarian reasons. That's all government bull.... and propaganda.

I am a little disappointed with Steve's reasoning but not with his conclusion. That conclusion is to drop the Temporary Foreign Worker program during this economic turndown and for governments to provide more job assistance to young Canadians .
This of course would come at a price. Young Canadians are not as expendable as foreign workers. Think health & safety legislation that TFWs don't have a clue about but those pesky home grown young Canadians just might. Think about unecessarily appalling living conditions here in Ontario for tobacco pickers from Mexico and other parts. And finally think about the lost psychological advantages to our employers. Right now they can tell foreign workers to work extra hours or else back to Mexico/Latin America you go boys. Young Canadian workers might just tell them to go f... themselves. That kind of independence is precisely what some employers and most Conservatives absolutely abhor. This program is a gift of right wing conservative ideology to well off pro Conservative employers and they like it.