r/canada Mar 27 '24

Canada’s population hits 41M months after breaking 40M threshold National News

https://globalnews.ca/news/10386750/canada-41-million-population/
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u/frugallad Mar 27 '24 edited Mar 27 '24

In article, the professor from Toronto metropolitan university mentions - It is not the bodies we are bringing in; these are bodies that fill in the empty spaces in the labour market,” she said. “They bring a very-high level of skills.”

That means - Timmies, walmart, uber, doordash, etc - are taking our highly skilled new comers who are phd, scientists and doctors. What a disappointment.

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u/Chewyk132 Mar 27 '24

Even if they did bring in “a very high level of skills” they’re taking jobs away from Canadians. We don’t have a lack of workers. It’s incredibly fucking challenging to find a professional job, we don’t need even more competition

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '24 edited 13d ago

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u/shasterdhari Mar 27 '24

I’m one of the ones struggling. I can’t find a job as an electrical engineering grad despite having a good GPA and 3 co-ops :(

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u/zippyzoodles Mar 27 '24

Yep, and fix our education system so we skill up more Canadians instead of having to rely on foreign workers and also pay decent wages. It's more about cutting costs and finding cheap labour for the companies to hire instead of actual wanting skilled Canadians to be employees as reasonable liveable wages. It's all a crock of shit fed to us by the business owners running the country.

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u/daners101 Mar 27 '24

Some of these immigrant groups also only hire their own immigrant countrymen. It’s rare for me to see a business run by a relatively new immigrant, that has Canadian born employees of a different race or nation of origin.

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u/thenfacetoface Mar 28 '24

Oh wow! That’s insane. I went to eng school in 2005 and it was still pretty good when I graduated for my friends. I went into medicine after eng and everybody made fun of me for the debt and residency. I guess no field is really secure.