Temporary Immigration in Canada is Wrong

The census of 2012 discloses that Immigration is being used to provide cheap labour for businesses and industry, to drive down wages, distort population mobility figures and shuts out Canadians willing to work.  Eventually, there's a plan to dispose of the EI in the long run to further cheat Canadian workers out of a right they earned.  Canada Immigration Blog notices when this changed and what it means.

Until recently, Canadian immigration policy targeted economic immigrants (permanent residents) to fuel our country’s growth. However, in the past few years a significant shift has taken place. Starting in 2006, and for every year since, Canada has admitted more temporary foreign workers than economic immigrants. We are now choosing to fill labour shortages with guest workers ahead of permanent residents. This change in direction will have consequences.

A whole new cottage industry of pseudo immigration facilitators are charging fees to work the system and grease the wheels of accessing entry employment.  See Red Seal home page.  Does this look like some kind of agency you'd think you would trust?  Why are they allowed to capitalize on a government agency that should be above board?  Here's another one called Abhinav that also pushes for skilled workers needed in the west.

Lawyers are using misrepresentation to put fear into employers who might break government rules.  Here's an example on this site:

More and more businesses in Canada are hiring foreign workers.  In fact, the number of temporary foreign workers has ballooned in recent years to the point where they now outnumber new permanent residents.  There are many reasons for this trend, including a rapidly aging labour force, skills shortages for specific sectors of the economy, as well as federal government policy which has increasingly prioritized temporary foreign workers over permanent residence applications.

And just out today, Jason Kenny said that the companies themselves will be doing the recruiting of new hires for temporary work.

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney told Sun News Network on Thursday one of the biggest changes will be to "invite businesses to go overseas, recruit the people who they think will work well in their companies, give them those job offers, and then we'll bring them in (to Canada) on a super-fast basis."  Sun News

The new temporary hires may well be going to the tar sands for all we know or to work at the Tim Horton's where people don't want to work for minimum wage.  But who's to tell?  And how fair will that be to temporary immigrants that run into difficulties with their employers, or are injured?


After a horrific accident that killed 11 temporary workers, we learn the dark side of life for temporary workers.

"Canada and the agricultural industry are quick to dispose of migrant workers who get injured in the course of their employment,” she said.

“Workers are soon sent back to the ... south, and in our experience, are unable to find work with their injury and largely unable to pay for private medical care. It's an inhumane and unjust way for Canada to treat people who get injured putting food on our tables.”

Everything this government does lacks class.  It turns its back on Canadian joblessness.  Uses up the temporary workers like expendables as if saying "there's more where you came from".  It farms out its responsibilities to govern by good policies and taking ownership of responsibility to simply handing it over to the ruling class of big money.

What's Missing from the Long Form Census According to Former Statistician

There is a need for an improved Consumer Price Index that updates weights more frequently, has a wider coverage of commodities and does a better job in dealing with quality changes.
from Munir Sheikh, former chief statistician of Canada New Directions for Intelligent Government in Canada

•    Canada does not have an ongoing wealth survey. This is surprising since a number of issues the country faces today require information on wealth holdings at the household level. The debate on the adequacy of pensionsNew Directions for Intelligent Government in Canada

is taking place without the knowledge about personal asset levels of Canadians at the time of their retirement. The impact of the financial and eco- nomic crisis cannot be fully examined without an understanding of changes to household wealth.
•    The Drummond Report, prepared for the Council of Labour Market Ministers, highlighted serious labour market data gaps and urged the government to act expeditiously in view of the weak labour market that exists today following the financial and economic crisis (Drummond, 2009).
•    With globalization, trade data have not kept up. There are weaknesses in data for trade volumes, because of inter-industry and intra-industry trade, and trade prices, particularly import prices.
•    Service sector data, particularly service prices, need improvement.

•  Data on aboriginal populations are particularly weak. This is especially true of populations on reserves where the only source of data for reserves which participate was the census. Even that source is now largely gone
with the cancellation of the long form census.

All About the Boreal Forest and What Tar Sands Destroy

This is by far the most captivating visual presentation on what we are destroying by oil greed.  Because Canada is so large, PMO can sit in Ottawa and only talk economic action plans.  How a person can watch this video and not care deeply about the damage done to nature is hard to fathom.



As for clean up that will happen after a spill, well forget that.

More than 1,000 barrels of oil spewed into the Yellowstone River after Exxon Mobile's Silvertip pipeline burst during heavy flooding in the region in July. By August, Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer said samples taken from the region didn't show any elevated levels of chemicals that would persist in the environment. Officials had said Silvertip wasn't carrying tar sands oil at the time, but it does on occasion -- just, conveniently enough, not when the pipeline ripped open. By the end of the year, Exxon was boring holes far below the riverbed as engineers worked on repairs. The Billings Gazette, in its comments on the attorney general's statements, noted quietly this week that less than 1 percent of the total amount of oil spilled from Silvertip was ever recovered, however. Does that mean there's still about 1,000 barrels of oil floating around somewhere?

Tar sands oil sinks, so it will not be fished out of the rivers, never, ever.  Only 1% was recovered two years later.

Americans Livid Over TransCanada Lies

If an individual lies, it's pathological.  When industry lies, it's criminal.  And foolish.  TransCanada promised to source 75% of its steel for pipelines from the US.  Instead, it came from India.

 Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA) accused the foreign company TransCanada of misleading the American public that the pipeline would be built with American steel.

Doyle submitted an amendment that challenged TransCanada to certify its claim that 75 percent of the pipe comes from North America is actually true. Discussing his amendment, Doyle expressed his frustration about his attempts to get a straight answer from the tar sands company about where the steel for the 1700-mile pipe was made. Doyle found that the Indian company Welspun Corp appears to be the pipeline supplier, using its Little Rock facilities to store India-manufactured pipe and steel. “I don’t believe there’s a lick of US or Canada steel in this pipeline,” Doyle said:

I’m asking for a bit of truth in advertising here. It’s been my frustration throughout this debate. We hear a lot of claims about the pipeline and I just want to be honest with the American people. My amendment just says this: TransCanada has told us they have made every effort to source as much steel through North American mills as they can. I’m simply asking them to certify that claim. Through my little amateur investigation, I don’t believe there’s a lick of US or Canada steel in this pipeline. But I would love to be proved wrong.

This says volumes about how TransCanada is a black mark in business dealings.  Currently, their Utah tar sands have been halted for being dishonest about how they would be cleaning up the tar mess.  Apparently, the compound turns carcinogenic and fluid when mixed with tar, further enhancing its capability to morph into a run off and uncontrolled toxic compound.

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