WOW A LITTLE HONESTY: CND BUSINESS INTERESTS ARE DIFFERENT THAN THOSE OF CITIZENS

Jason Kenney, Immigration Minister for Canada, has responded to the public outcry over misuse of the foreign workers program. Today's Waterloo Region Record has this story "Tories reverse course after outcry over foreign workers program". There will be changes including dropping the rule regarding paying foreign workers 15% less than the prevailing wage. This was simply an incentive for employers not to find Canadian workers. Also employers must show that they have increased their efforts to hire and train available Canadians for the work. Predictably the Canadian Chamber of Commerce have stated that these changes are "...not in the interest of Canadian business".

Outsourcing, foreign worker programs and even within limits immigration are simply methods for right wing apologists to lower wages by increasing the labour force beyond sustainable levels. They are also a method to put downward pressure on wages and on unionization. Nice of the Cof C. to admit that what is good for Canada isn't good for them and vice versa.