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What you've described is the right wing way of thinking.All short term thinking.. how much can we make exploiting workers (kill the unions, kill wages, kill benefits, hire foreigners at less money). Things collapse tomorrow.. MEH, i made my money, I'm well off, F the peons I exploited. Oh and more tax cuts.. taxes are too high .. can't afford to fund Health care, that's ok.. I got private insurance...

One only has to look at the Wall street collapse, everyone made out like bandits, the taxpayer bailed them out and now suffer now having to deal with large deficits that have to be paid back too.. wall street.

similar thing happened to my friend...he went to school in Australia...while over there, met a great girl and she came back with him...they went through all the procedures for her to become a citizen and they even got married while they were waiting for everything to go through...it was almost 3 years and they were fed up, so they both went back to Australia and he became an Australian citizen (it took only a few months)...they both work, contribute to society, have a couple of kids now and enjoy their life together down there...it seems we are too interested in keeping employable people who want to contribute out and diluting our workforce with people who don't speak the language, have little interest in "integration" and who come here to live off our social programs...it's backwards thinking, and will be the financial end to our prosperity.

The B.C. Federation of Labour says documents show it will be 14 years before Canadians replace all the temporary foreign workers from China hired to work at an underground coal mine in northern B.C.

Two unions are in court challenging more than 200 temporary foreign worker permits obtained by HD Mining for its Murray River underground coal mine near Tumbler Ridge, B.C. The employer says there were no qualified Canadians to do the specialized work at the underground mine.

Documents tendered in the case include HD Mining's previously unreleased transition plan, which outlines how the company won't start hiring Canadian miners for more than four years and plans to continue using temporary foreign workers for the next 14 years.

"What the document says categorically is it will be 4½ years before a single Canadian will be working underground at the mine," said B.C. Federation of Labour president Jim Sinclair.

"After 4½ years, it will be 10 years before it will be a majority of Canadians working underground, and it will be 15 years before the temporary foreign workers are finished working in that mine."

The plan says temporary foreign workers will be used for 30 months of construction and then for two more years as they set up a training school and start recruiting and training Canadians.

Then people bitch and moan when prices go up. Last time timmies raised coffee prices, there was almost rioting in the street.

A new wage structure will also be introduced to provide employers with greater flexibility. Wages that are up to 15% below the average wage for an occupation in a specific region will be accepted; however, employers must clearly demonstrate that the wage is consistent with that of Canadian workers based on Statistics Canada data.

Last time timmies raised coffee prices, there was almost rioting in the street.

Timmy's should be staffed by teenagers for most shifts but Little Johnny is too precious to learn about work ethic. Instead, at 17, he goes to school achieving so-so marks and spends most of his free time playing X-Box with the parents catering to his needs.

It would be easy to blame Johnny but this issue has been created by the helicopter parents. Keep in mind though Timmy's just love to bring in foreigners when they can as cheap labour walks the walk and is the final line.

Under the new rules, foreign temporary workers will still covered by provincial employment standards, meaning they must be paid the minimum wage.