Two-tiered wage system announced by Tories
On
Wednesday April 25, 2012, Human Resources Minister Diane Finley quietly changed
the rules of the prevailing wage, allowing foreign workers to be paid 15cents
less than those who live in Canada. The reason why this happened was so it
allowed us to help recover the economy and respond to local labour market
demands said Diane. For the business leaders who wanted to recruit low cost
workers, were thrilled about the change and immigration groups were heartsick at
the exploitation of new comers who came to look for jobs.
With this change of rule it can mean that Canadians will now have a harder time to compete for jobs since it would save companies more money hiring cheaper labour. This new rule being introduced will allow Canada to be heading towards the European route where foreign workers are paid less and treated differently, which can contradict with how everyone have the same basic rights and should be treated fairly in Canada. Furthermore more Canadians looking for jobs can be out of luck increasing the rate of poverty in Canada, after all shouldn't we help our own citizen before we allow foreigners to come into the country and work.
In my opinion I think that Canada should keep the old rules of everyone being paid the same and not discriminate against foreigners. I think everyone deserve to be treated the same and if owners are willing to hire people who are from another country they should pay them the same amount as a person who resides in Canada. Another big problem is that if foreigners are getting paid less it would make it harder for the citizen of Canada to find jobs because companies would rather have lower paid workers for the same amount of work, this can eventually lead to many people heading into poverty.
With this change of rule it can mean that Canadians will now have a harder time to compete for jobs since it would save companies more money hiring cheaper labour. This new rule being introduced will allow Canada to be heading towards the European route where foreign workers are paid less and treated differently, which can contradict with how everyone have the same basic rights and should be treated fairly in Canada. Furthermore more Canadians looking for jobs can be out of luck increasing the rate of poverty in Canada, after all shouldn't we help our own citizen before we allow foreigners to come into the country and work.
In my opinion I think that Canada should keep the old rules of everyone being paid the same and not discriminate against foreigners. I think everyone deserve to be treated the same and if owners are willing to hire people who are from another country they should pay them the same amount as a person who resides in Canada. Another big problem is that if foreigners are getting paid less it would make it harder for the citizen of Canada to find jobs because companies would rather have lower paid workers for the same amount of work, this can eventually lead to many people heading into poverty.
Something funky here William - can't read the font. Reminder to add to multi-paragraph format-check the rubric again. Posted in the sidebar.
ReplyDeleteI dont think the job displacement is as severe as you claim it is. Immigration laws have been tightly quite a bit and as a result there are less immigrants/temporary workers in Canada. Thus, there will not be alot of Canadian jobs being outsourced by temporary workers. On the note of the comparison to europe, there are dozens of reasons why europe is doing so poorly right now, but more importantly the difference between canada's robust economy and europes. Europe is having a terrible economic crisis not because of europeon companies hiring immigrants but rather because of the chained reaction of the Euro falling from italy and greece.
ReplyDeleteWilliam - most of the post is a summmary - good for context but you need to add more. Your opinion should be close to a concluding statement. Some of your points in could be addressed in the body examining the issues. Take a look at the directions again and see me for help. You understand the issue but perhaps not the full purpoose / expectations of our blogging multi-paragraph responses.
ReplyDeleteAlex is correct on the European failures being mutli-dimensional but I would not be so quick to dismiss William's questions regarding the displacement of Canadian workers either. These are commonly brought up - further elaboration would help here all around.
In my opinion, I agree with William W. It is a horrible to discriminate people who may not have had residency in canada for a long period of time. I believe that no matter who the individual is or where they are from, it should not matter within the work industry. Imagine you went from Canada to Europe and because you weren't European you got paid 50 cents less that the European citizens. Not fair is it?... Again, I think that everyone should be treated and paid equally to everyone else. Unless they are in a different field of work in which just happens to pay more.
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