News Forum - Foreign students accuse Canadian government of exploiting them for cheap labour

[Thaiger]

Studying in Canada is one thing, but doing labour for low pay is another. Some foreign students in Canada, in fact, are accusing the Canadian government of using them for cheap labour and getting rid of them afterwards. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government allowed about 50,000 foreign exchange students into the country last year as a way to “help more graduates fill pressing needs” of reopened businesses. As the Covid pandemic had largely shuttered many businesses, the reopening saw many job openings. But some foreign students say the reasoning behind gaining a permit extension of 18 months wasn’t as it […]

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[Marc26]

It's an absolute debacle 

 

2.6mil application backlog

 

My wife has been waiting for 13 months for her work permit

 

Just a disgrace 

[Vigo]

I expect that many people who are applying for certain jobs are not really qualified.  This Mr. DeSouza in the article says he is an accountant. Well, maybe he is in India, but highly unlikely, he  is a CPA, having passed the professional exam in Canada. The tax laws are different in Canada and it is reasonable to expect that a person be competent in the field he applied to work in. 

Sure, the  government is slow processing the applications, I believe it. However, it's the employees who are responsible. Everyone blames government, but those are unionized jobsworth lazy incompetent Canadians doing the processing. Canadians should accept the fact that there fellow citizens are going slow. The MPs and ministers of a government can only do so much. The government workers have to process the applicants.