Wild Ace

If the Liberal Party wants to impose new immigration rules that will force young Canadians starting out their careers to compete with foreigners, without even requiring Canadian employers to prioritize the hiring of Canadian citizens, let's have an election so that the Carney government can have a clear and unambiguous mandate from voters to screw Canadian youth. For a bunch of people my age who have benefited from a country that allowed us to build careers and lives without having to compete for jobs and promotions from foreign candidates to make immigration decisions that will utterly torpedo the career prospects of millions of Canadians 40 and under without a national debate or a mandate to do so is both cruel and wrong. If voters in their wisdom believe that young Canadians are too stupid, too lazy or too irresponsible to be given a fighting chance to build the same careers I was without having to contend with unlimited numbers of applicants from outside the country (some of whom will receive Canadian-funded scholarships to attend the most competitive universities to do so), then let's have the debate and go into this abyss eyes wide open. This is no longer just about giving large corporations the ability to bring in unlimited numbers of fast food workers. It is about making it even harder for young people who grew up in this country to join the middle class. The old, ready excuse for unlimited immigration was that Canada had millions of jobs to fill that Canadians simply refused to do. That Canada didn't have enough fruit pickers and fast food workers willing to work minimum wage jobs because they were all going to work as IT workers, pilots, managers and engineers. Now, the Carney government has blown that excuse out of the water. If companies can't find enough Canadians to fill their high wage vacancies, they're either not paying enough or the education system has so utterly failed to produce enough qualified graduates to meet those needs. Either way, that should at least merit a national debate and a clear mandate from the people BEFORE a single new visa is approved. The constant reaching for foreigners as the easy solution deserves a national discussion not for old people like me but for young people who we all have seen struggle to live the type of life I've and we've enjoyed. So let's have an election on this issue and get it over with. This isn't about whether Canada should or shouldn't be the 51st state. This is about whether Canada has a place for its young people today.