[Hugh Jahrmes]

I'm sure the the same in cities, but coming from the red deer area all I hear is constant bitching about the origin of Tim Hortons staff or any other fast food and shovelling #### on the TFW program. Fact is if we had local people applying for those jobs and they were still being outsourced (abusing the spirit of the system), by all means be upset.

My problem is .. When I ask someone who starts their argument with "I'm not a racist but.." what their beef is with the TFW program, the response is invariably "taking jobs away from Canadians."

For fun I ask if they have recently applied for a job at said department store / fast food chain. Being so passionate you'd think the topic struck close to home.

"Hell no, I wouldn't even let my wife work there."

Because most of us are too good for those jobs, and too spoiled by the big money lifestyle we have taken as our birth right.

I realize skilled jobs and using the program to circumvent industry rates for wages is a whole different can of worms and I'm not even touching that one. But the program has a ton of valid applications.