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True but general increase of the population also creates jobs as some portion create new businesses. It's why unemployment hasn't exploded over the decades of population growth via immigration. Not saying immigration can't lead to higher unemployment under specific conditions. We've hit other real resource constraints that the system we have hasn't provided enough of like housing, healthcare, etc. I think we need our gov't to step in to fill the gaps. We also need the gov't to start employing people the private sector won't take and do the things it the private sector won't do. Like filling those gaps.
No it does not. I know studys say other wise, I question those studys and weather they're taking into account where those people money goes in reality.
just adding new people does not suddenly fix that issue, by that logic, we could accept anyone like Justin was doing, evidently thats not the correct course of action given it that and his stubbornness, it earned him the worst voter popularity in canadian history and shot our youth unemployment up to double digits.
They have to be people looking to start a business here and that's not a lot of them. if the arms of our economy required those temp foreigners to function then it shouldn't have existed in the first place, how on earth do you explain that without coming to the conclusion that companys are looking to hire cheap foreign labor to cut costs.
Unless workers force companys to employ the people we already with what we already have, be it born here or immigrated here, im not convinced that simply adding labor to the market isn't just a fib corps peddle to trick people into letting them build cheep labor.
I'm not saying immigration fixes unemployment. I'm saying that over the long run, it doesn't make it worse. When I say this and throughout my comment I mean immigration where newcomers have the same labour rights as the existing populatiom. I'm talking about PR immigration.
TFW immigration is a whole other matter which is obvious vehicle for cheap labour, which cannot create jobs, which increases PR/citizen unemployment, especially among youth because youth often works retail and that's a major use of TFWs. That's before we even consider the abuse TFWs get from their employers. I think the TFW program did most of the damage you speak of, along with the diploma mill foreign student program, which essentially functions as another TFW program. Temporary immigration for work should be shutdown yesterday. Any immigration for work must come with the same labour rights and that must include at least delayed PR. That guarantees fuckers can't pay them less.
ah ok, was just making sure your thinking was grounded.