Kanadas Jugendarbeitsmarkt hat den niedrigsten Punkt in einer Generation erreicht
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-18/canada-s-youth-job-market-hits-lowest-point-in-a-generation
Kanadas Jugendarbeitsmarkt hat den niedrigsten Punkt in einer Generation erreicht
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-18/canada-s-youth-job-market-hits-lowest-point-in-a-generation
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The brain drain from Canada over the next couple years is going to be biblical, it’s already been happening but there is 0 reason to believe that it will get better in the near future.
The LPC sold us out to protect the older generations and their money, we won’t own homes, we struggle to find jobs and those we do find don’t pay competitive wages, but hey at least boomers and corporations stayed well off
16 to 24 is an absurd age range to be using. The job markets for postsecondary grads shouldn’t be lumped in with teenage babysitters if we’re trying to figure out an actionable policy solution.
In any event, there are just too many competing economic forces. Normally young workers‘ main selling point is that they’re cheaper than someone with 20 years experience, but young workers are no longer „cheap“ to hire — I’m not sure they even have the option, given their cost of living is just as high as everyone else’s.
The jobs that youth normally work, aka fast food and retail jobs, are all being taken by international students and foreign workers. Forbid foreign students from working and ban occupations like fast food from being able to apply for LMIAs, and the unemployment problem would vanish
it’s funny but people in this sub will deny our QOL has worsened and talk about how child poverty has been eliminated according to govt stats and then ask for data which proves QOL has gone down despite seeing with our own eyes how badly things have gotten.
I’m gonna add this in here.
Due to certain government moves in the last 5 years we now have a employer market for most unskilled jobs out there. Unless the government plans to deport a ton of people who came here to work through various means (TFW programs) then we have to give businesses an incentive to hire young people.
BC use to have a „training“ wage that was $2-3 less per hour than minimum wage. I believe you needed like 300 hours before you’d be moved up to minimum wage and that was an incentive for a business to take on someone young with no experience. Right now there is no incentive for me to hire someone young, and MOST (not all) young people are still living at home with little to no expenses and don’t need money as badly as someone older who is more likely to be paying rent.
In a employee market where businesses are desperate for workers this wouldn’t be an issue because businesses would invest and take time to grab what they could, but we’re in a employer market at this time and probably for the foreseeable future as were in a recession whether we admit it or not.
Surely this has nothing to do with the fact that 9/10 tim hortons in my hometown are staffed almost entirely by international students or temporary foreign workers.