The students receive something of value (education they can’t get at home) for either money directly if they have it, or cheaper labour to pay for that education and support themselves.
It’s bad for Canadian workers because it suppresses wages, but it’s not exploitative by default. Nobody is forcing them to come to Canada, and nobody is forcing them to work at these types of jobs. Almost all the companies employing them meet the minimum Canadian labour and pay standards.
Not that there aren’t specific businesses being assholes and breaking the laws, but overall it’s not exploitation.
The way they’ve underestimated living costs and increased the ability to work for students, all while ignoring diploma-mill schools points at a pattern of knowingly allowing exploitation
Is the government allowing exploitation of Canadians by letting them work at these companies?
Canadian citizens have the same costs of living, and it’s not like Tim Hortons(just an example) doesn’t employee local students too.
When I was in college I had heard upwards of a third of the visas they were accepting and processing were at the very least questionable, but they accepted them anyways - a local student will pay maybe 5k a semester, while with international students it’s upwards of 30k. It’s a no-brainer that schools want internationals coming in.
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The students receive something of value (education they can’t get at home) for either money directly if they have it, or cheaper labour to pay for that education and support themselves.
It’s bad for Canadian workers because it suppresses wages, but it’s not exploitative by default. Nobody is forcing them to come to Canada, and nobody is forcing them to work at these types of jobs. Almost all the companies employing them meet the minimum Canadian labour and pay standards.
Not that there aren’t specific businesses being assholes and breaking the laws, but overall it’s not exploitation.
The way they’ve underestimated living costs and increased the ability to work for students, all while ignoring diploma-mill schools points at a pattern of knowingly allowing exploitation
Is the government allowing exploitation of Canadians by letting them work at these companies? Canadian citizens have the same costs of living, and it’s not like Tim Hortons(just an example) doesn’t employee local students too.
By upping the number of people willing to work for lower wages/benefits, which undercuts the bargaining position of the populace at large? Yes
That isn’t the definition of exploitation.
When I was in college I had heard upwards of a third of the visas they were accepting and processing were at the very least questionable, but they accepted them anyways - a local student will pay maybe 5k a semester, while with international students it’s upwards of 30k. It’s a no-brainer that schools want internationals coming in.
The international students literally subsidize the local students.
This isn’t necessarily a bad thing either, it’s just exporting education (like you would export lumber or automotive parts)
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This is a Canadian media source reporting on Canada. Do you have anything to add other than “other people do it so we should too”?
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