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Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor
How is it that we have millions of foreigners wanting move have way across the globe, relocate their family or even leave their family to send money back home, yet we have some provinces with double digit unemployment because those people are unwilling to move a few thousand km's in the same country to try an make their life better?
It's because our society and social programs have made life to comfortable in Canada. Alberta and Sask have enough job vacancies to hire all the unemployed in Eastern Canada, but most of those people will not relocate here to make a better life.
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Wouldn't a stream of skilled labour cause a decrease in salaries? I am kind of happy that nobody wants to travel half-way across the country to work here, except that being in a "have" province means contributing more to other "have-not" provinces instead of investing in better medical / infrastructure projects.
I know that sucks from an employer's perspective when they have to pay higher salaries and benefits to recruit and retain employees, but not being an employer I don't even know if that is an issue - I would suspect that price of goods and services are just adjusted to compensate.