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Originally Posted by EdwardTH
Also Indians clearly are taking jobs Canadians can't/don't want to fill. I can't remember the last time I had an Uber or Skip driver who wasn't Indian. The fact that they're choosing those jobs over something like construction tells you what the real problem is - construction and other industries simply aren't attractive enough. The pay and conditions don't appeal to people enough, whether they were born here or not. You can bring in people from wherever the hell you want but unless you're gonna do some Saudi slave labour shit you can't force them to work somewhere if there are better options. Can you blame them - who wants to sweat their ass off and destroy their body working construction all day when you can drive around delivering sushi at your own convenience for a bit less money and have the flexibility to go to school at the same time?
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I'm afraid you're only aware of half the full picture here.
First problem is that you're right: Canadians don't want the jobs that Indians are taking. If that were all there were to it, there would be no problem. However, there is a HUGE problem with it because of
why those jobs are unwanted. They're unwanted because they don't pay nearly enough to live on. That people are taking those jobs is what keeps the wages so low. The net effect of this is that we're not getting immigrants, we're getting their countries of origin. We see this every day with the further erosion of the middle class.
The second issue here is that there's an old and well-known phenomenon at play: ex-Indians take advantage of new Indians in Canada. It's the same for all nationalities but because of the current situation this is about Indians.
Ethnic Indians tell the feds that nobody will work for them. The feds (and we'll assume there's no corruption at play) say, "Oh! That's terrible. Well, let's let you import all the people you need" But it doesn't end there. No. These Indo-Canadian bosses buy a house. They tell their marks in India that if they come work for them in Canada, they'll have a place to stay and a job. So some poor sucker in India winds up working for slave wages and paying exorbitant rent for space in a small house he has to share with 9 other people. And you can forget about the boss observing Canadian law: What's "overtime"? What's a fire code? What's paid time off? "Well, in any case, those things don't apply to you because you're not Canadian."
It's a scam all around for the overwhelming majority of Indian TFWs and Canadian citizens. It's not as simple as saying, "Well, Canadians don't want those jobs so why not let Indians do them?"