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Originally Posted by MJM
You do realize you can't just hand out work visa's right? You actually have to prove that you can't fill the position with a Canadian, or that a Canadian doesn't possess the required skillset to complete the job.
Many of these foreign workers were sent packing with the recession unless they had acquired permenent residence. I know where we work when the layoffs hit, anyone that was on a work visa had to be let go first regardless of the job performance of Canadians in the workplace.
This is a policy I fully agree with and support, but to say the government just hands out work visas is not correct. There has to be a need, and you have to prove this need and the ability of the foreign worker to fill it.
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All you have to do for is set up a ad on a government website they give you and when people call you just tell them off and give them reasons they are not qualified or you simply don't answer the phone.
I don't think you realize how many people were actually brought over on work visas and how many are still working here. It was easy as pie to bring someone over as I know about 10 people who sponsored someone to come work for them and not just in the construction industry.
I can understand the bigger companies having stricter policies, but most tradesmen are just small LTD companies.
The government did just hand out work visas with little proof they were needed. The same way construction workers get paid umemployment wages during the winter by filling out BS papers that they can't find another job while they work under the table for other people. The government is easily tricked.