postyX - September 06, 2025Maple Syrup & Mayhem #8： Human Trafficking Empire
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Summary
In this episode of Maple Syrup and Mayhem, we talk about the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFW) and modern day slavery that Canada is actually supporting and encouraging. The TFW program is a breeding ground for modern-day slavery and should be ended.
Transcript
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Hello, and welcome back to another episode of Maple Syrup and Mayhem. I almost forgot the name of my own podcast.
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Today, we're going to talk about the TFW and modern day slavery that Canada is, the government is actually supporting and encouraging.
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And the response to PP finally saying something, it's not enough, but I guess, you know, considering our politicians are both on the same side.
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I guess expecting PP to say anything is better than nothing.
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So we're going to go over that. There was a few articles written, actually, Diverge Media sent me their in-depth research.
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So we're going to use some of that to go over some of the points that are in that and why this program continues to go without anybody saying it.
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Well, people say stuff, but I mean, without it being, you know, legally sanctioned or anything like that.
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So the UN, or the United Nations, rather, Special Rapporteur, however you pronounce that, they put out a report.
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And I think it may have been last year, but I could be wrong. It could have been even before that.
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But anyways, they described that Canada's temporary foreign worker program or the TFW program as a breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery.
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And I used air quotes there. But why, you know, Mark Carney, and I'm going to put the clip in here in a second, he defended the program's expansion,
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citing that businesses are concerned that their second biggest issue is access to temporary foreign workers after the tariffs.
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So why would a prime minister who, you know, for all intents and purposes, are supposed to care about the constituents that they rule over,
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be more concerned about businesses being able to find temporary foreign workers,
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especially when these businesses are making money hand over fist?
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Mr. Paliyev called this morning on the government to scrap the temporary foreign worker program.
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Mr. Well, I would say the following, which is that that program has a role.
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It's part of what we will be discussing, how well the temporary foreign worker program is working
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and how our overall immigration system is working.
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We've been absolutely clear as a government that we want and we're putting in place policies
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so that the overall level of immigration as a proportion of the population will decline
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from around 7% today to around 5% several years from now.
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Now, the biggest contributor to immigration is not temporary foreign workers.
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And I will say, je vais répéter en français parce que c'est important.
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When I talk to businesses around the country, especially, particularly in Quebec,
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but elsewhere across the country, their number one issue is tariffs
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and their number two issue is access to temporary foreign workers.
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So what is the temporary foreign worker program and why do we need it?
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Well, the story is, if you believe what they tell you is that, and it did, I guess,
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at some point in time in Canada have a purpose because it was invented, I guess,
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or whatever you want to create it for the farming industry,
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mostly because it was very difficult for farmers to get the labor.
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Usually you're only coming up for a certain period of time during the year,
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But it's now expanded to pretty much everything.
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And why this benefits companies to use this program is because they get a subsidy from the government.
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They use what's, they ask for or request what's called a labor market impact assessment.
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And we talk about this all the time, the LMIAs.
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And what that does is basically determines whether or not a company is having or struggling hiring people.
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And they, you know, lay out their claim to the government that, you know, they're having issues hiring Canadians.
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So they're allowed to bring in people on a temporary foreign worker program.
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Because I'm sure you're sitting there thinking, well, what does it matter besides the fact that you're bringing in non-Canadians?
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Because you're thinking probably that they're getting paid minimum wage, right?
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So there's huge profits to be made in scamming people, foreigners.
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And the funny thing is, is it's foreigners scamming foreigners.
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So when they come to Canada through the temporary foreign worker program, you know, in Diverge Media's article, they said, according to one immigration consultant,
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some foreigners are paying up to $60,000 for a labor market impact assessment in Ontario.
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The actual cost from the government is only $1,000.
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They're exploiting, you know, these people seeking a better life, I guess you could say.
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There was also an interview that Diverge Media talked about as well in their article, saying that most of these people buy the LMIA through unethical consultants and employers.
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I'm sure if you've watched any of us nationalists talking about it, or you've even been on TikTok, or maybe even Instagram,
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you'll see all the different Indians, mostly consultants, helping other Indians advertising to get them here.
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So why do you need to advertise that kind of thing?
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So the going rate for the LMIA charged by these consultants and employers runs up to $60,000 in Ontario, but obviously it varies by province.
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I'm sure Ontario is probably the most expensive.
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And I'm going to pop in this video here, again, from Diverge Media.
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It was an Ontario woman charged 35 foreign workers illegal recruitment fees, and she's still allowed to operate.
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So there are obviously huge rampant abuse, and the funny thing is, and I know Canada, and this is going off on a little bit of a tangent,
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but I know Canada doesn't have a history of slavery.
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That's the Americans' cross to bear, I guess you could say.
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And what the Canadian people are going through and what they're working for is also modern-day slavery.
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So it's funny, it's not slavery when the people are white, or they're exploiting, you know, foreigners that don't belong here that are getting the money,
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And they're making huge profit, like I said, hand over fist.
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A joyful dance from foreign workers, showing off their work permits, golden tickets to a new life in Canada.
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Stories like these are all over this recruitment agency's Facebook page.
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She claims to have helped hundreds of newcomers for a fee.
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But behind the happy pictures, CBC found a trail of broken dreams.
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In March 2023, the international student says he paid the recruiter nearly $3,000 to help him find a job and work permit.
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He dropped out of college and Mosquito found him a job.
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But she never came through with the work permit.
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Kizzo's now living in this homeless shelter, broke and unable to work legally.
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A CBC investigation has found that Mosquito and her companies have been caught 35 times by the Ministry of Labour,
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charging foreign workers illegal recruitment fees for jobs.
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While she was ordered to repay the fees, sometimes with a small penalty,
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this lawyer says that's not enough to discourage unscrupulous recruiters.
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Under provincial law, repeat offenders can be charged and face jail time.
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CBC asked the ministry why they haven't pursued Mosquito.
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They did not answer, but said they will soon introduce tougher measures,
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including naming and shaming dishonest immigration representatives.
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Meanwhile, Mosquito's company is still open for business.
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CBC tried contacting her multiple times for comments, but...
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Divergent Media actually went through 46 pages of companies that were deemed to be in non-compliance
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There's no enforcement on anything in the government currently,
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unless you're, you know, nationalists spreading, you know, memes or something like that.
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But other than that, there's no enforcement in long-term care.
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There's no enforcement in the trucking industry.
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It's escape from L.A., you know, modern-day version.
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So, even though they were non-compliant, they were still eligible for the program,
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even after refusing to hand over paperwork to the investigators and falsely advertising wages.
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So, this is where the, I guess this is the crux of the issue, right?
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So, the jobs that you do see advertise for 36 an hour to be a cook at a pizza joint,
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or, you know, to work at Tim Hortons or something,
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it's highly unlikely that those companies are actually paying those wages.
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So, what's happening is they're advertising for that, you know,
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and so that they can, you know, claim to the government,
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look, we advertised for, you know, a front desk person or a counter person or, you know,
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again, somebody as the manager at a pizza shop for $40 an hour and nobody wants to do it.
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When in reality, they're not contacting the people who send in their resume.
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They're not, you know, doing any kind of interviews or any of that stuff.
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They're just claiming that they've done it and that they cannot get the thing.
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And the government is so fucking retarded and stupid and complicit at all this, complicit,
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So, you know, it's basically just all, like, it's all paperwork.
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And what's even more ludicrous is that some employers are still eligible for the program
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after it was found that they did not put in enough effort to ensure the workplace was free
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from physical abuse, sexual abuse, psychological abuse, financial abuse,
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and to ensure there was no reprisals against TFWs.
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Again, I got it from Diverge Media's article, and I'm going to link it in the description
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so you can look at the whole article because it was really done, well done and researched.
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A short list of non-compliant employers of the TFW and International Mobility Program.
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So you have a list here of people that these people are in BC and Alberta or whatever.
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Like, I'm assuming that is a fast food place, and you have to hire somebody from another country
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You're bringing in people that have no knowledge or experience or anything of our safety standards
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You know, so I'm not sure what the purpose is there.
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If you go here, you know, and some of these two, the random names like Stockton, you know,
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Like, these are probably shell companies for fucking, what do you call it, money laundering.
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You're telling me with all the immigrants we currently have in this country that are able
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to work legally, you couldn't find one person to do Miracle Janitor Service?
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We have one in Mississauga here, Euroforce, not surprising.
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It's Mao and Plo, again, another company, Pathogenia.
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Yes, they're taking over the motels and the hotels too.
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Again, can't find someone to work at a liquor store.
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It's all just, like I said, in order to scam the system.
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And the government doesn't care because they want these people here.
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They want the, you know, as much as they might be, you know, blowing smoke up our ass and
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Well, Carney basically showed his whole ass by telling us that he's worried more about
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But even PP coming along here and saying, oh, you know, this is, it doesn't matter because
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you had time to do something about it and you didn't.
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And you don't care because the big companies that have the lobbyists that are, you know,
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lining your pockets with money are the ones that control this country if you want to,
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You're just, it's all just performative, right?
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None of these people in these companies are highly, are, what do you call it?
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They're not highly skilled jobs that you need to get people.
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And really in Canada, like you, there is really still jobs here that we can't find a Canadian
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And if there was one, it would be very, very few that you need to bring somebody in from
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Reason the employers may be found non-compliant.
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So they went through this and they also, you know, found the reasons why they're not compliant.
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One was employer couldn't show the information they listed and the offer of employment was true.
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So the money that they're putting out or the offers of employment they're putting out, they
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For a period of six years, starting on the first date, the foreign national worked for
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The employer didn't keep documents that showed they met the conditions of employing a foreign
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The employer didn't have the money to pay the wages agreed to with a live-in caregiver.
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That's another big scam with the live-in caregivers.
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The employer couldn't show the description they gave for the job on the labor market impact
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assessment application was true for a period of six years.
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Like I said, they're advertising stuff that's not true.
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They just have to prove that they advertised for it.
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Who is checking on them to see if they've received resumes?
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Who is actually checking to see if they've done any kind of interviews?
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So outside of the lack of enforcement, there is the exploitation factor.
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Not that I care as much about that because my thought is you shouldn't be trying to come
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here anyways, stay in India, stay in China or wherever you're from, and make your country
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great like our country was before you guys invaded.
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So I don't really care too much about that, but there is something to be said from the
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political aspect that they are exploiting these people and bringing them here.
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And if the United Nations actually gave a fuck about anything, they would call them out
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They would actually do something, place sanctions on Canada or something, but they won't because
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You know, there's a lot of them being exploited.
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But again, I recommend you don't come here to Canada.
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Stay in where you're from and make your country great.
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So the legal perspective from it, so the Criminal Code and Immigration and Refugees Protection
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Act prohibits human trafficking, which this is actually basically human trafficking.
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A lot of the, you know, temporary foreign workers, you know, complain that they're not
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receiving the wages that they were promised, that they had unfair working conditions, no
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surprise, and that the employer, you know, they can basically just fire them and send
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So when people say, well, you know, why would they work for less than minimum wage?
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Well, because it's by one stroke of a pen, their ass is going back to India.
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What they do is they get these jobs, and then they disappear and start doing Uber Eats and
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all this other shit, driving, getting a fake, you know, AZ license and driving a truck and,
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This is, you know, basically their game plan here.
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So they do get abused by scamming employees, so they're willing to take the abuse, but then
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What they're saying is that, you know, Canadians wouldn't tolerate this kind of abuse or
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mistreatment, but TFWs who will be sent home, if they lose their job, they will, obviously,
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The housing aspect too, and, you know, this isn't even, I mean, it does affect the housing market,
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but a lot of times these people, the employers will house the TFWs in, you know, substandard
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The standards are different from these countries, so maybe to them that's not substandard, but
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that's not the standards that we built here in Canada and that we expect to live under.
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And that includes overcrowding, mixed gender housing, and women who had not consented to
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Lack of climate control, laundry facilities, food, prep, and storage areas, and there were
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some situations reported that 20 to 30 people share a single washroom.
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Reluctant to raise issues with their employers or to report exploitative working conditions,
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fearing that they may be identified as complainants.
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Another issue that the report detailed was that the inspections of workplaces were often
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announced ahead of time and gave employers time to conceal evidence of noncompliance and
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send away workers who are more likely to speak up.
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And this is actually something that I, you know, well, I know more about, I guess, the long-term
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care aspect of inspections as, you know, I used to work in that field broadly.
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They, especially during the scandemic, the scam that was COVID, they didn't do any of
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Why do you think the military had to come in in Canada and wrote a scathing report in
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Ontario for how bad the conditions our seniors are living in?
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Private companies, large private companies with large shareholders, or large board members
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rather, that, you know, get kicked or get their shares or whatever the fuck you want to
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call it, they're at the end of the profit sharing or whatever it is that they make.
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Well, obviously, by hiring uneducated, unexperienced workers, a lot of, I'm sure that a lot of them
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are, you know, temporary foreign workers, or maybe not, maybe they're, you know, but they're,
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again, not experienced or skilled enough to be there, as well as the, you know, other conditions
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like crowding, maintenance issues, food, you know, the health products that people need.
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The fat fuck Doug Ford was pretty embarrassed about it.
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So it doesn't surprise me that the workers are also being subject to these conditions,
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because they don't, again, they don't give a fuck.
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People in this country, even actual Canadians, we're just cattle here.
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We're just taxpaying cattle to support the elites and keep the, give the boomers their
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pension, make sure the boomers keep their pension.
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We're going to have absolutely fucking nothing.
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And our kids are going to have even less than nothing.
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And so now they're, you know, they're also exploiting people from other countries and bringing
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them here to make sure of that, which is just insane to me.
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And that was kind of a, you know, tangent that might have been unrelated, but whatever.
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And doing virtually, like, how do you do an inspection virtually?
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According to Amnesty International, they interviewed 44 workers and found that most of them reported
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And they reviewed stipulated zero rest days and some workers reported being subjected to
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By their employers and supervisors, including being called donkeys, Indians and shitty Mexicans.
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So, you know, and again, not that, you know, I would, I wouldn't even encourage hiring people
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from these countries, then you wouldn't have to use that context.
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But again, you're in a country that's not yours.
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Now, moving on, this is a very long, you know, article, and I'm talking a lot.
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And I just said that at the beginning, like it used to be used for farm work and temporary,
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And a lot of times they were from South America, not that that, or Mexico, not that
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that necessarily is any, I mean, it is infinitely better than India, but it's still, you know,
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So right now, though, the biggest place it's being abused is the trucking industry.
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And we all know anybody who drives on, you know, Canadian highways or roads knows that
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So the freight levels are at 40-year lows, according to the Canadian Trucking Association.
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And yet the Liberal government is still approving these applications for trucking positions in
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So let's look at some of the, they've actually, there's a, I'm popping in a screenshot here.
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You'll see of the advertisements on the job bank, they're giving 36, they say 36, 36, $33
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Now, the Canadian Trucking Association said, aside from the tariffs, the industry is currently
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experiencing the worst freight market in 40 years due to, ding, ding, ding, overcapacity,
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poor North American market conditions and out of control underground economy that is driving
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This is the, goes back to the safety thing too, right?
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So in order to keep your fleet of trucks compliant and safety, like safe on the road, which most
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Canadian, you know, white companies would do just out of pure, you know, ethics, I guess
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It doesn't even necessarily matter if it's the law.
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Most people don't want to be the cause of a multi-death accident.
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And if you've driven on any of the roads in Canada, excuse me, the roads are in shitty
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So you're probably going to have more repairs, right?
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We also go through pretty brutal winters here, which also causes that stuff.
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How can these companies undercut the bigger fleet companies and get more business?
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Well, because they're cheaper because they're cutting corners.
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And the fact that people don't see this is just, again, insane to me.
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So if Canada has the worst freight market in 40 years due to over capacity, why is the Liberal
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government approving more TFWs for trucking positions?
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So, yes, we know in conclusion that PP has called for reform, but reform is not even like that's
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And every single person who is currently here on a TFW needs to go back.
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If you're paying the market wage for it, you it will be filled by Canadians.
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Well, what like somebody made some idiot tweeted or whatever.
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Well, what what teenager wants to work overnights at a fucking KFC or whatever it is?
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Well, you know, back in the day, they didn't work overnights there.
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OK, and they did, you know, work the night shift till I was one of those people that used
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to work until 11 o'clock at night, midnight, and then go to home and go to school the next
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So they do they will work those jobs, but they don't want to do it for twelve dollars
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an hour or ten dollars an hour or fucking eight dollars an hour, because that's not what
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Our unemployment rate is higher than it's been fucking forever.
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So how can you say that these people don't want to work these jobs?
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And it's because we made it that way and we want it to stay that way.
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That's the only reform that's needed is a total abolition or whatever.
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No more TFWs, no more fucking whatever the other program is.
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If you cannot find staff to work at your fucking Tim Hortons, maybe there's too many fucking
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You see here, Juno News put out an article that says the government refused to release
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the data on how many temporary migrants leave Canada.
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Like you would think, I guess, if the program worked the way it was intended, it wouldn't
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They'd work here for the few months and then they'd go back.
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So, you know, and they wouldn't be getting any health care here.
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Their employer would be responsible for, you know, paying for their health care and all
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So they really wouldn't be tapping into the resources that much.
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But the issue comes is that they don't go home.
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You know, there's probably three million people with the last name Singh in this fucking country.
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So they're not releasing the information about how many people go home because they don't
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Or alternatively, they do know and they know it's going to make people mad.
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So they had Juno News had reached out to the CBSA, Canadian Border Services Agency, and
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they basically said that they refused to release that information despite confirming that it
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collects individual entry and exit information on all travelers.
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They're refusing to release the data on how many international students and TFWs actually
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leave the country when their visa permits expire.
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In response to a True North inquiry, the CBSA confirmed it collects exit information at land
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The data is used to confirm whether individuals remain in the country after their authorized
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The CBSA spokesperson told the True North that the data is applied on a case-by-case basis to
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support immigration enforcement, which means it doesn't happen at all.
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However, aggregate data on specific cohorts, including international students and temporary
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The federal government, through Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship, publishes detailed
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arrival numbers but cannot tally how many temporary residents depart Canada once their visa
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Um, and they also refused to disclose how many foreign students and workers left Canada
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Uh, they asked for the exit data and they refused to get a response or they were, did
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The refusal comes as Canada continues to deal with the consequences of mass migration, which
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Finance Canada admitted is causing an unprecedented population surge.
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Like, it's just, it's so hard to wrap your head around the actual stupid.
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It's got to be malice because the stupid, it can't be stupidity because this is an obvious
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consequence of flooding a country with millions of people that don't belong here who are competing
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with our teenagers and low skilled workers for the same fucking jobs.
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And they're getting those jobs because they're willing to take half.
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So I just, I don't know if people, I know everybody's just happy living their life with their home and their Uber Eats and stuff like that.
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Federal data shows that more than 870,000 newcomers were admitted in the first four months of 2025 alone, including 132,100 new permanent residents, 194,000 study permits, and 491,400 work permits.
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That's 491,000 jobs that are Canadian teenagers and whatever it could be doing.