Richard White
Senior Member
Welp.. I guess I am getting a by-election.
If this is true, I expect the riding to change parties again. With the NDP in a tailspin and the riding demographics changing I can see it going Blue.
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Welp.. I guess I am getting a by-election.
If this is true, I expect the riding to change parties again. With the NDP in a tailspin and the riding demographics changing I can see it going Blue.
Northern Light
Superstar
The Federal Conservatives coming out this morning in favour of scrapping the entire Temporary Foreign Worker program, excepting agriculture.
I actually think think there ought to be some wiggle room for very high-value employees............(high pay, high skill) .....
That said, I think this will prove to be a very popular plank, and the Libs would do well to steal it from the Conservatives with all due haste.
I actually think think there ought to be some wiggle room for very high-value employees............(high pay, high skill) .....
That said, I think this will prove to be a very popular plank, and the Libs would do well to steal it from the Conservatives with all due haste.
UtakataNoAnnex
Senior Member
A stupid but popular plank regardless who does it...
Monarch Butterfly
Superstar
John Tory Jr., son of former Toronto mayor, wants to run for the federal Liberals
In an email Wednesday, Tory Jr. confirmed he is having “exploratory” discussions, after several sources told the Star he is considering trying to run for the federal Liberals.From https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/john-tory-jr-son-of-former-toronto-mayor-wants-to-run-for-the-federal-liberals/article_d7df8ae9-a0ec-48ae-a897-51ce032b1b3c.html
gabe
Senior Member
TFW has its place, especially among farms. Otherwise it has become a tool of wage suppression and takes rights away from workers. It does need to go! But Pierre Poilievre is also no friend of the working class either, he has been in favor of Republican style union busting right to work legislation in the past. ( Right to work less)
UtakataNoAnnex
Senior Member
Fair enough! I can't agree it's needs to go...but I can agree at least the problems you have pointed out with it most certainly do if that being the case. >.<
guavadelic
Active Member
Early indications make it seem unlikely:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-wants-temporary-foreign-worker-program-scrapped-1.7623864
Carney is likely in regular contact with business owners/corporate types but he'd also do well to speak with workers to get a sense of how the program is perceived.
Not dissimilar from the Carbon Tax, the program could have positive intentions but if its deeply unpopular with the public then it won't go far. We'll see if Carney pivots.
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afransen
Senior Member
I don't think we need to go ditch to ditch. There are a number of industries with chronic labour shortages, and reasonably high wages. I agree we should not be importing TFWs to sling coffee at Tim Hortons.
Northern Light
Superstar
While I agree w/the sentiment broadly, Given that Canada has a 6.9% national unemployment rate. A two decade high.....where we were sub 5% for a good chunk of said period, and labour force participation is below our 15-year high of 67.3% (same as Australia today), sitting at 65.2%...,,,, should there not be sufficient people already in Canada to fill the majority of vacancies, in the majority of sectors?
If we agreed to generous limits for 3 years for vacant jobs with a posted salary of $150,000 per year or greater, i don't think that would be a problem.
But I also think that evidence suggests we have wage suppression here in many relatively well paid sectors as well, with Canadian coding jobs paying 1/3 less than comparable jobs in the U.S. after adjusting for the exchange rate.
Certainly, with the greatly reduced foreign student numbers we now have ample Community College and many University spots open, and I believe we have spaces in the trades as well. So when one looks 3-5 years out, I'm not sure why there should be large, acute-scale shortages of labour for any jobs that aren't ultra-specilaized.
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thettctransitfanatic
Senior Member
Apparently someone very surprising wants to be the Liberal candidate... safe to say that the son clearly is not following in the footsteps of his father... and I guess will be the first test of whether Johnny boy can make it in the municipal election next year...
Jonny5
Senior Member
Looking at today's Canadian jobs report is interesting.
There was a 65,000 loss of jobs, though the bulk of these were all part time, contract jobs or "self-employed", and mostly among middle aged people 25-54 years-old, with actual net job gains to people younger or older from that range.
I do wonder if this is a lot of gig economy workers who either gave up, or are no longer in Canada, though the students coming and getting a TFW pass would generally be under 25.
It seems murky what statistical bucket say an Uber Eats delivery driver falls into, but it could be the drivers and e-bikers finally saying "enough with this shit".
It gets even murkier if you think about how there's now so many "self-employed" whose jobs are being social media influencers, or podcasters, or Youtubers. I wonder how they actually measure that. They apparently are trying to do it, but that's a really weird question because if you require Youtube or Instagram or Uber to do your "job", are you really self-employed in the traditional sense?
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Northern Light
Superstar
As predicted here at UT and elsewhere, the new EV sales mandate due to kick in next year (20% of all cars sold to be EVs, 100% by 2035) will be delayed. No clear sense of where this ends up....but there will no sales quota for 2026 and I don't imagine for 2027 either.
This will now bring me back to my long time nit over the hard push to make transit buses electric at enormous cost (more expensive buses, charging equipment, and the need for upgraded power distribution and generation.
Its not that I oppose a shift to electric, I very much see it as the future; but the vehicles being made now still have serious shortcomings in range, especially in cold weather..........that and the aggressive 'do it all at once' spending plan has never made sense to me,and will make less sense now.
This will now bring me back to my long time nit over the hard push to make transit buses electric at enormous cost (more expensive buses, charging equipment, and the need for upgraded power distribution and generation.
Its not that I oppose a shift to electric, I very much see it as the future; but the vehicles being made now still have serious shortcomings in range, especially in cold weather..........that and the aggressive 'do it all at once' spending plan has never made sense to me,and will make less sense now.
EBT
Active Member
WTH is Canada doing, trying to antagonize China at a time when we should be mending fences with Xi? Chinese tariffs on our farmers and fishermen are costing us tens of billions in lost business at the very time that Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to our country.
What possible reason could there be for a Canadian naval vessel to be in the Taiwan Strait? It can't be as part of our NATO commitments. What does the South China Sea have to do with the North Atlantic Treaty? Canada's armed forces are not sufficient to repel any attack on our homeland from our "friends" to the south, and we have most of our military assets spread all over the world, from Eastern Europe to the South China Sea.
Can anyone make sense of this? And there is no debate about this in Canada. No one in the media or opposition party is questioning why Canada is going out of its way to antagonize China. Why are the Western Premiers silent? Their farmers are getting hammered by Chinese tariffs, and Mark Carney is going out of his way to make the resolution of this dispute with China possible.
Canada is not a serious Country.
afransen
Senior Member
China engaged in a live fire exercise in the Tasman Sea off Australia recently without giving advance notice. Commercial air traffic had to be diverted, and the Austalian government learned this from a commercial pilot.
Towered
Superstar
It's called standing on the side of freedom and democracy. It's pretty simple.A Canadian and an Australian warship entered the Taiwan Strait on Friday, one day after the Chinese military accused both countries of trying to stir tensions with naval exercises in the South China Sea.
WTH is Canada doing, trying to antagonize China at a time when we should be mending fences with Xi? Chinese tariffs on our farmers and fishermen are costing us tens of billions in lost business at the very time that Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to our country.
What possible reason could there be for a Canadian naval vessel to be in the Taiwan Strait? It can't be as part of our NATO commitments. What does the South China Sea have to do with the North Atlantic Treaty? Canada's armed forces are not sufficient to repel any attack on our homeland from our "friends" to the south, and we have most of our military assets spread all over the world, from Eastern Europe to the South China Sea.
Can anyone make sense of this? And there is no debate about this in Canada. No one in the media or opposition party is questioning why Canada is going out of its way to antagonize China. Why are the Western Premiers silent? Their farmers are getting hammered by Chinese tariffs, and Mark Carney is going out of his way to make the resolution of this dispute with China possible.
Canada is not a serious Country.