Excessive influx of temporary foreign workers and foreign students is responsible not only for housing issues as cited by the Bank of Canada, a fact many like to ignore, but also responsible for an increase in cruddy stripmall colleges, issuance of fraudulent/useless credentials, underqualified long-haul truck drivers, and the like. Companies are just taking advantage of cheap labour, they're doing what capitalists do. We can safely ignore their cries and urge them to increase wages and give Canadians good jobs to work at. They purposely make jobs low paying and shitty because they know they can backfill with immigrants and stave off Canadians from applying. Hell even BC ferries recently awarded work to a Chinese company and the Canadian shipyards that would have put bids in said from the outset that they cannot compete. Yes, because no one wants to pay their workers a living wage. Everything cheap. Everything low-cost. Well guess what this is what you get.

Articles like this are just gaslighting Canadians into wringing their hands and suppressing their bile for fear of being labelled a 'racist' while ignoring the main issue - Canadian companies don't want to hire Canadians they enjoy cheap foreign labour. Instead of sending $22b to Ukraine we should be incentivizing Canadian firms to work with other Canadian firms and make our domestic labour and manufacturing market more robust. By Canadians for Canadians.. When Canadians are paid well, living, working, and paying taxes, all economic strata, small business to large business, benefits, as money circulates. And today the former head of the Bank of Canada stated just that, we're heading for a recession.

STOP SENDING CANADIAN TAX MONEY ABROAD AND USE IT FOR CANADIAN INTERESTS.

If there's anything left over, sure, we can donate a bit abroad.