Canada's foreign student push 'mismatched' job market, data shows

psvrh, 1 month ago

It wasn’t mismatched, it was working as intended.

If you’re a landlord, Tim Horton’s franchisee, or college admissions officer. Or basically anyone looking to strip-mine humanity for every red cent.

ValueSubtracted, 1 month ago

“Instead of really trying to bring in the best and the brightest to fill the labour market gaps that need to be filled, what we’re doing is bringing in low skill, low wage, expendable and exploitable temporary foreign workers in the form of students,” Banerjee said in an interview.

Refreshingly blunt. Also unsurprising. Also yikes.

sbv, 1 month ago

Immigration should be a win for the country and a win for the people coming in.

But we’ve been in such a rush to exploit students that we’ve forgotten that they’re something other than easy funding for post-secondary institutions.

ValueSubtracted, 1 month ago

Well they’re apparently also a source of cheap, exploitable labour, so that’s…something.

baggins, 1 month ago

This is like when you buy an e-book to learn how to get rich quick.

avidamoeba, 1 month ago

What we really need is more BBAs.

Also look at the Other/Unspecified numbers:

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