Cheap Foreign Labour This Harvest In Alberta

If farmers can't pay Canadians enough to harvest their crops, then the crops should rot in the fields because it's obviously an activity that does not make economic sense. Those foreign labourers should be creating farms in their own countries and we can buy the crops from them, it would help to develop their economies and our trade relationships.

Yes, let's depend even more on foreign food than we already do.

According to our own Ernie Macrophage last night on ATV, Nova Scotia needs more immigrants to fill jobs at the other end of the spectrum...this the same gummint that boasts of our overeducated work force when pitching Halifax as a place to bring bizniz. It's because our birth rate's declining, he says. Nothing to do with the fact so many of the young and fertile have to move away because they can no longer afford the property taxes imposed by the NS gummint.* <p>I have been forced to the conclusion that the Nova Scotia gummint desires the ethnic cleansing of Nova Scotians. <p>*they pretend it's municipalities that set the taxes, but an enormous chunk of municipal expenses is a certain fraction of assessment (both set by the province) which must be handed over to the province allegedly for education. It's a marvellous scam; whenever the province needs a windfall it ups the assessments saying "the municipalities can lower their rates" but they cannot lower them in proportion because of this hidden "education" tax ... the province gets $$$ and the municipalities get the blame.

Well the foreign workers are not supposed to be making less but they are and sandy Mcdonald knows it;why is there nothing being done?,I will tell you why"it is just another capitalist plot to bring down wages and the standard of living in this country,and another why to import cheap labour,I am just wondering how long it will take before they are back to using child slave labour again,Dont forget that these capitalistic pigs will go to any lengths and stop at nothing to make the allmighty dollar no matter who they exploit or injure in the process,they are sick people with no ethics or concience!

I believe the answer to this question is whether it is the family farm or the factory/corporate farm that are choosing to employ cheaper labour. I absolutely believe that there is no excuse for paying any worker less than minimum wage.

This example in Alberta seems to be the classic case of making as much profit as possible at the expense of the worker.

In Ontario, farmers can write-off at least half of their employee expenses if they hire students who are seeking work. Even so, all it takes is a couple of hours spent working in a field to discover that most Canadians can not tolerate very much manual labour, or atleast, doing such work for minimum wage (although, it ends up being more than what migrant workers would make for doing the same work in their own country). It is not very surprising that we often see so many migrant workers during the harvest season in rural Canada... I suppose this situation exemplifies the importance that immigration has been, and still is, to Canada.

Parents will start to think child labour is ok too, when the two parents can't put enough food on the table working their two or three jobs. Erosion of the family and therefore society as a whole will continue if we don't fight the takeover of the world through the corporate agenda! Too many people have already given up, saying we can't stop it they're too big!

What I really have a hard time grasping is that certain people think they are going to be part of the grand plan, they somehow will be among the chosen few, who will be rich and inherit the world, while the rest of us will be slaves.

I feel that the reality is, there will be two or three, maybe a dozen max, families at the top of the food chain, while the masses, which will be in the millions or maybe only thousands, (because many will die in this corporate takeover)will be left to scavenge for food and existence. So why are so many fighting so hard to incorporate a policy or ideology which includes so few??

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If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?

if you look after fee for rental and housing and Tax and gas price .you finded canada run by the rich people and immigrant came here to find some things and most of them going to lost...secound largest country in the world with so many land and we are paying so much for that? in other hand canada immigration asking for more and more immigrant with this cost of living?canada or slaves program/ immigrant need job and need place for living I don't know what is going on in canada and why cost of living so expensive?for some canadian working for government there is no problem for me I am looking for job and so hard to land job in my education and no future at all after all welcome to canada?

I think the real problem is that in alberta we simply can't get any workers at any wage. Here in Grande Prairie we can't get a guy to run a rake or shovel for $16. I think it's not that the employer is trying to pay immigrant workers less, it's simply that no one can afford to employ anyone here because the oilfield is paying anyone $30 an hour. We have no choice but to look for immigrant workers...no one from Canada wants to move to the bitter north. So it's either close every business that doesn't drill wells or find another way to get employees. The problem then is i can't pay the immigrant workers with no experience the same as the guy who's been working for me for 2 years, other wise he's pissed. It's less a conspiracy than the way things have to work. I wonder if the accounted for experience and skill. I would think there wouldn't be a lot of skill required...but then again..i don't run the harvest, so i can't judge that.

It is the news...has to be sensationalist or it doesn't sell. If any country wanted to hire me for 20 times the wage i get now...but paid me less than the locals. I'd still take it. I could live with making 40k a month and going home.