Nehmen vorübergehende ausländische Arbeiter junge kanadische Arbeitsplätze? Folgendes denken Experten | RCI

I agree with one of them that TFWs aren’t the only stream responsible but they’re still a part of it. And I do not believe or trust for a second that businesses are definitively proving they can’t find Canadians to work for them.

Even if I did – so he it. Your business is not entitled to success. Sink or swim with what we have here.

> But Mark Holthe, an immigration lawyer based in Alberta, told CBC Radio’s The House that the temporary foreign worker program requires employers to prove there’s no Canadian available to do the job and that they’re paying the prevailing wage rate (new window).
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> „It’s designed not to put downward pressure on wages,“ he said.

Proving that there is no Canadian available [is as trivial as posting the job in a local paper for a period of time](https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/services/foreign-workers/median-wage/low/requirements.html#h2.10), along with a Job Bank posting with *highly* specific credentialing. There’s no impetus to actively seek interest from Canadians across all of Canada, or to fund their relocation, or to provide them with training.

It *absolutely* puts a downward pressure on wages because instead of relocating and training a Canadian you can hire a skilled foreign worker. It leaves us with employers having less impetus to fill the need for skilled labour by *relocating and training Canadians.*

>Meanwhile, a [report from Desjardins (new window)](https://www.desjardins.com/content/dam/pdf/en/personal/savings-investment/economic-studies/canada-youth-employment-4-september-2025.pdf) says Canada’s decision to relax work restrictions for non-permanent residents, including allowing international students to [work more than 20 hours per week during the pandemic (new window)](https://search.open.canada.ca/qpnotes/record/cic%2C12), led to a sharp increase in the population growth of young workers between 20 and 24 years old.

>However, as the pandemic moved into the rearview mirror and economic activity normalized, this deluge of available labour well outpaced demand, putting upward pressure on the youth unemployment rate, it said.

This should have been obvious. Allowing International Students to work effectively increased the supply of young workers.

This reminds me of how Rogers argued that its merger with Shaw would increase competition: having one less provider reduces the number of competitors, but they would have us believe that the opposite is true.

`2 – 1 = 3`, apparently.

>Prime Minister Mark Carney said the temporary foreign worker program has a role, but the government is reviewing it along with the immigration system as a whole. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre called for the government to scrap the program on Wednesday.

I won’t hold my breath. Canada’s business community *wants* high unemployment and *wants* an environment where there is strong downward pressure on the value of labour; and similarly, our central bank *fears* what it calls a *wage-price spiral* and will take steps to ensure that the value of labour remains suppressed.

*Anything* but deal with wealth inequality head-on.

The narrative that TFWs have taken all the youth jobs and depressed wages has become unquestionable dogma for *a lot* of people. 

Folks, when an easy answer to a complicated social/political/economic problem is being spread by mostly partisan sources, and that answer happens to involve blaming foreigners, then it’s a safe bet that foreigners are probably not the problem and the problem/solutions are likely much more complex than the “blame foreigners” narratives suggest. 

Please also close the door for PR for anyone coming to school here for 1-2 year programs.

The PSW program is riddled with students that only chose it to get fast-track PR.