Foreign "Students" Displacing Canadian Truck Drivers

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  1. Runawayscreaming

    Runawayscreaming Medium Load Member

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    Supposedly there are about 160,000 citizens of Punjab working in Canada on student visas, mostly in trucking. Global news is reporting that one was arrested during a routine traffic stop and could possibly be deported:

    Global News: International Student Arrested
     
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  3. Canadianhauler21

    Canadianhauler21 Heavy Load Member

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    I can't even find a good trucking job but all the Indian students I know have decent driving jobs. Reason why? Indian trucking company owners like to exploit these students for low pay. AC transport pays student AZ drivers $15 an hour on cash payments. In return they will help them get their PR.
     
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    AModelCat Road Train Member

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    Just read that online. He was arrested by OPP and is facing deportation because he was here on a student visa but working double the amount of hours the student visa allows. I can sympathize with needing to work to pay for schooling/cost of living but go about it the proper way.
     
  5. Runawayscreaming

    Runawayscreaming Medium Load Member

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    The student scam seems to be a nudge, nudge, wink, wink accepted back-door route to permanent resident status in Canada and Canadian truck drivers are paying the price of having such an abundant source of slave labour from abroad.

    Many of the foreign "student" colleges exist merely to facilitate student work visas. Some also specialize in money laundering:

    CBC: El Chapo finds Vancouver business college excels at money laundering.
     
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    DUNE-T Road Train Member

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    There was the same thing here in US in IL and WA. You were able to get CDL even without legal residence, as long as you had a SSN. They cracked down on it only in 2017
     
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    upnorthwpg Road Train Member

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    If he’s so hard up, how did he afford his licence?
     
  8. Intothesunset

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    I guess slave labor still exists? Or perhaps indentured servitude?
     
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    People Express, Lightspeed and Syndicate are notorious for this. What’s finally putting an end to them? Insurance.
     
  10. DenBob

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    This sort of thing disgusts me to no end
    The politicians and bureaucrats who enact and carry out such policies are engaging in treason at their employers, their fellow citizens' expense, and should be publicly and painfully executed.
     
  11. Canadianhauler21

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    They borrow money from back home. Obviously that money has to be repaid some how. Their parents borrow money from family/friends.
     
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