Stop Temporary Foreign Workers

I was at McDonalds in Grande Prairie this week. Working there serving and cooking were probably 15-20 hard working Polynesian, what I can only assume were TFW's. There was a huge line of young fellas ordering food, all of them in there oilfield PPE. How many of those guys in line do you think would be willing to work there? How many of those guys would be willing to clean the rooms in the hotels that they are staying in? How are you going to fill these jobs if you stop the TFW program?
The TransX's, Bison's,H&R's that hire TFW are the McDonalds of the trucking world.
God bless the TFW's I say and yes I will have fries with that thank you!

 

What do you think is a fair wage to flip hamburgers?

 

Are you sure that isn't Mike Duffy ????

 

an employee earning full wage would contribute more taxes

 

I agree, and your burger and fries would cost you a lot more of your tax paid income.

 

They'll beg for those jobs when Tesla and competitors hit the $25000 price point. Too bad the Philipinos won't give them up.

 

The problems with TFW's as I see it are

1) They are taking money out of our economy and putting it into other economies.
2) They are treated like slaves, they are completely controlled by their bosses and get deported when some ####### fires them for complaining (an probably rightly so - complaining that is).
3) They are preventing companies from increasing wages, as they should if they are having a problem with recruiting employment.

Other than that, these Filipino folks are hard working, good people and Canada could use some more of them as permanent citizens with equal rights and pay.