@cbcnews @british-columbia-cbcnews It should not be cancelled, but definitely reformed, majorly. Canada's #TFW, international #PSE, and #PGWP programs all (mutually compoundingly) function as de facto state-sanctioned labour trafficking, or, for international students and grads, as de facto indentured servitude. It's exploitation of them, to do work for which #Canada has no shortage of labour, solely to drive down wages and thus increase unearned profits for the parasitic Canadian oligarchs, and for the parasitic oligarchs of the USA and elsewhere who own far too much of the Canadian market through monopolistic multinational corporations.

Meanwhile, Canada has major labour shortages we cannot fill, due to our aging population, in fields for which we make it prohibitively burdensome for migrants to work. We could be making mutually beneficial and honest arrangements for countries with younger populations and underdeveloped education systems, to help them train a surplus of workers to Canadian standards for fields for which we cannot train enough new workers fast enough.

But augmenting the labour supply in those fields of work would benefit the working-class Canadian majority, as by preventing decades' Conservative (and previously BC "Liberal" but actually conservative) financial sabotage of our healthcare system, and by driving up the supply of housing and hence eliminating the parasitic profits of real estate speculation.

Yes, reform all our foreign migrant and worker systems: to be completely honest here and abroad, to be mutually beneficial to the working-class Canadian majority and would-be migrant foreigners, and to be completely divorced from and antithetical to the interests of the Canadian oligarchy and their foreign multinational corporate counterparts.

And remember: every time a spokesperson for a major corporation says "work Canadians don't want to do," that's a deliberately deceitful mis-framing of "work employers don't want to pay anyone sufficiently to do."

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