I'm so tired of this rhetoric. If they want workers there are plenty here, they just refuse to pay us a living wage.
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I'm a stone mason. Before I left Canada to immigrate to the UK, to be with my now wife, I was working exclusively with one guy, business partner and final bits of learning before I was ready to really go out on my own. When he got his start in the late 70s subcontract prices (piece work, so by the sq.ft,) were between $30 and $50 per sq.ft. Since mid 2010 you'd be lucky to get $25, before I left at the end of 2020 we'd have to fight to get $20
Right? What they want are exploitable workers who will work dangerous and difficult jobs for little more than minimum wage. Construction is not unskilled labour.
Hopefully if Carney's crown corp comes to fruition it would drive up the prevailing wage of housing construction workers.
Yup, all I see is an excess of unskilled labor, the problem is some of the immigrants are unable or unwilling to fill the construction roles, those jobs actually pay well.
Either way, if you pay more money, you will have workers.
Justin Trudeau is a decent man. In a world where many leaders are thugs. He has done a lot of good things such as assisted dying, legal marijuana, strengthening competition law or that bill against greenwashing.
However, the single biggest failure of Trudeau was immigration.
Justin Trudeau's immigration policies were absolutely extreme. Under his leadership, the Canadian population increased by 3% a year. This is far more than France, Britain, the United States, Mexico, Turkey, Brazil or Saudi Arabia. In fact, the only region of the world where you see a 3% annual population growth is Africa.
This extreme population growth triggered an unprecedented housing crisis. Visible homelessness is rising in every single canadian city, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. People are scared to end up homeless. New migrants are viciously exploited by unethical landlords.
You can't tell people from around the world "Come to Canada" and think it will have no consequences on housing.
Even he admits he was too aggressive too fast.
We could build an extra 3% housing supply each year, but not with zero notice.