So I'm traveling through the prairies and I stop for coffee.
At that big Canadian tourist attraction and respectable community gathering spot named after the wheelchair kid in Southpark.
Yay Timayyyy!!!!
Actually it's a town so fucking small that's the only coffee option on a sunday, otherwise I'd never visit their overpriced white fluorescent cubicle coffee feed trough.
But caffeine makes us do things we wouldn't normally do sometimes.
Suspiciously similiar to the behaviour of certain drug users, those coffee freaks.
Can't trust 'em I tell ya.
but I digress as usual.
So there in Yee Haw, Central Canada, where there's not a black person in site and I haven't seen a fag, lesbian, or person of color, (most definitely no First Nations) in almost a week,
Is a Ladyboy Philipino with too much mascara serving me coffee.
A very pretty Ladyboy might add. Ahem.
However, he seemed oblivious to his peril. His great peril.
He looked like he just started and I could not see any visible scars or lost teeth.
He was new to this redneck Canadian town.
Outside, standing far from any comfortable seating, smoking while standing around a garbage can, which is the common corner for any (FREE?) Canadian who wants to having a fucking smoke at the same time while they drink their purchased beverage, I had a talk with the senior "barista" while she had her smoke.
It turns out when Timayyys!!! outlets like hers need a new worker or two, they call head office.
And order some new workers.
No sign for local youth is put in the paper.
They just order some new workers.
Who are shipped straight from the Philippines or India,
right to the Timayyys!!! in need.
"Local kids don't want to work for this wage" she says
In MY opinion they should RAISE THE FUCKING WAGE THEN!!!
But our "caring" and "forward thinking" Canadian government wants to make sure we robots won't get decent opportunities, it's more important their rich business owning buddies get the cheapest labour possible, than a Canadian worker getting a decent living wage.
They ship them straight from a third world country and plunk them down, help them get a work visa and give them a place to live. So they can get a worker for $9 instead of raising the starting wage to something that a Canadian kid knows is liveable. There were lot's of young people in that town without a job. LOTS of them.
As far as I know, new immigrants are the poorest wage sector in Canada.
Hmmm. I wonder why.
For over 15 years a "friend" of mine has been exploiting Indonesians and ripping off Canada.
Even before they made it so easy to just hire people right into Canadian jobs she was getting around the labour laws, finding people, getting them over to Canada, setting them up with a place to stay, finding people to "sponsor" them so they could get work visa's.
All that work was worth it to her. So she could pay them $9 an hour (with nurses training I might add) to be caregivers and nannies in Canada.
A staunch Conservative, she was always so proud of herself and how she was "giving them a chance they never would have had" while saving the extra $6 an hour it would take to get a trained Canadian to wipe someone's ass, give them a sponge bath, and take care of their spoiled bratty rich kids.
She was always wondering why she couldn't get me to go to a Conservative party shindig.
In the Okanagan of BC, where unscrupulous fruit orchard owners have tried to rip off workers for years, they import whole plane loads of Mexicans, Russians, Poles...
Who always seem to go home with no money in their pockets after their 2 years here.
This practice of importing workers while the streets are filled with people who can't afford a modern rent on the wages being paid out is so fucking disgusting it makes me want to scream and vomit.
The fat cats that run our gov't are all business owners. Cheap wages for immigrants recruited right from ads in their own country, means Canadians won't complain when they are paid next to nothing.
"You can be replaced with a cheaper import you know"
Canadians are worth nothing to their gov't, regardless of who's in power.
It's just fat pigs at the trough.
