Stop Temporary Foreign Workers

The issue of Temporary Foreign Workers is not about race. It is about the use of non-Canadian citizens to replace Canadian truck drivers. It is about corporations being given the power to determine that foreigners can work in Canada at the expense of Canadian citizens. It is about a trucking industry that has asked for and received trucking deregulation that has led to falling wages and decreased public safety. It is about trucking company owners and the Government of Canada conspiring to change the citizenship requirements of Canada to further lower truck drivers wages by bringing truck drivers into Canada who do not have the legal rights of Canadian citizens.

The large number of truck drivers being brought into Canada under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program is unprecedented. I doubt that most truck drivers are even aware of the recent flood of Temporary Foreign Workers. I'm sure it has taken most drivers by surprise. Prior to the current tidal wave of Temporary Foreign Workers, Canadian truck drivers were Canadian citizens of various colours. The new Temporary Foreign truck drivers are also various colours. There is no net visible difference in the profile of truck drivers in Canada under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.

 

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In Canada the problem is "fixed" by traditional run-of-the-mill citizenship requirements. Allowing corporations to ignore citizenship requirements to globalize workers across international boundaries harms every country that participates in such obvious breaches of common sense. It is a never-ending downward spiral that results in impoverished truck drivers whose wages fall below the cost of living of the country they are citizens of.

Truck drivers in the UK and western Europe are fleeing to Canada to avoid the influx of poorly-paid truck drivers from eastern Europe and the former Soviet Republics. Truck drivers in Canada are fleeing the influx of truck drivers from the UK and Western Europe. The truck drivers in Canada have no place left to go in a country with a very high cost of living. It is helpless truck drivers around the world who are paying the price of a labour force that is allowed to freely move across international boundaries willy-nilly.