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Let's re-write that in truthful language: Tim Hortons franchisees, who are multimillionaires, don't want to pay people a market wage and is looking to the government the bring in cheap labour to help them get richer.
Amazing to assume that a franchise out in cottage country makes anywhere near the same revenue as one in down town toronto. What would you say is market wage? $20 per hour $25 per hour $35 per hour?
The fair market wage is determined by the same market forces of supply and demand. If they can't find local workers at the wage they are offering, raise the wage until they can. If they can't afford the wages necessary to staff their business with local employees and still make a profit, then they have failed as a business. Simple as that.
Temporary foreign workers are supposed to fill skill gaps in the economy when not enough qualified workers exist, not to supply cheap labour when employers want to improve their bottom line.
I'd also like to point out that smaller local businesses don't have the power and money to exploit temporary foreign workers in the way corporations such as Tim Hortons can, putting them at a severe disadvantage to compete with them. These businesses still manage to survive in most markets, but would grow and thrive if the playing field was leveled. Fuck corporations, support small local businesses.
I'd also add that Tim Hortons are franchisees, and they're almost always a) very very wealthy, b) some of the most rapacious capitalists around, combining the worst of large/corporate inhumanity with the worst of small-business hustle, and importantly c) a very large voice when it comes to influencing local members of provincial and federal parliament.
As icing on the cake, a lot of them are also large-scale property investors.
There's a lot of whitewashing going on by labelling these people as "small-town business owners" or "mom-and-pop donut shop owners", but that image is largely a relic, and these people, today, are very, very rich, very very influential and are pushing some very, very toxic economic policy.
Even then it seems like the "temporary" part gets ignored. There should be some requirement to invest in local training for any specialized position that's needed long term/multiple times.