lenaitch
Senior Member
Poland seems to have a rather more efficient procurement system than Canada.....
Living up against a stirring bear tends to focus the mind.
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Poland seems to have a rather more efficient procurement system than Canada.....
Not abutted like Poland, but Russia‘s not too far from Canada either.Living up against a stirring bear tends to focus the mind.
Lululemon has been seeking the exemption since at least 2016. It was reported at that time by CBC that the company warned in a letter to the House of Commons Finance Committee that it may move its headquarters out of Canada if it was not granted an exemption. The clothing company has argued that there is a shortage of talent in the Canadian market and said it wanted the same exemption given to the film industry and universities. Federal Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne said last week if Ottawa hadn’t acted, the company’s headquarters may have left Vancouver.
The IRCC said that the only other time the exemption was granted was in 2014 when the federal government allowed Microsoft Canada to bring in an unspecified number of foreign workers to British Columbia as trainees without LMIAs.
When asked why Lululemon in particular was granted a waiver from immigration rules, IRCC said “they demonstrated a persistent labour shortage for the high wage positions they are seeking to fill, a quantifiable significant investment in the B.C. economy and a robust strategy to encourage knowledge transfer to Canadians and permanent residents.”
Not even just innovation, it's about just being willing to pay what the free market is willing to exchange for its labour.Great to see the Globe and Mail call out Canadian businesses for being lazy and preferring cheap labour to innovation.
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Globe editorial: Canada’s much-touted labour shortage is mostly a mirage
If there’s a shortage of workers, why aren’t wages rising? The reason could be an over-reliance on Ottawa’s temporary foreign workers programwww.theglobeandmail.com
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The Globe had a really weird idea after that about quotas and exchanges for the rights to TFWs that I frankly find bizarre (and they were doing so well).
Lets just turn the tap off on TFWs for any low-skill, low-wage job and raising the minimum wage by at least $4 per hour over 2 years; the problem will naturally fix itself.
'Not a simple story': Labour shortages aren't being driven by lack of highly educated job seekers
Shortages appear to be mostly centred in jobs requiring little education
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'Not a simple story': Labour shortages aren't being driven by lack of highly educated job seekers
A Statistics Canada study finds complaints about a labour crunch cannot be attributed to a shortage of highly educated job seekers. Read on.financialpost.com
What were the positions though?
Living up against a stirring bear tends to focus the mind.
Not abutted like Poland, but Russia‘s not too far from Canada either.
Thankfully we share the continent with the global superpower. Otherwise Russia might be giving us trouble.
And what *I* really hate is when someone stomps on an opinion or viewpoint with both feet.Canada can do things very quickly when it needs to. Look at the C17s, C130Js and Chinooks during the Afghan war.
I really hate that people confuse procurement policy and politics. The system itself is fine. The politics is not. It's no different than our issues with building high speed rail or housing. Writing contracts and cutting cheques is not the hard part.
Yep. As an alphabet person, I am kind of unsurprised by the backlash. I feel like pride is a bit overdone. I don't see any problem with explaining that there are different orientations, gender identities (just like there are different ethnicities and religious affiliations and so), in an age appropriate way in school, but making it a big celebration or festival seems a bit over the top. We're already changing the minds of younger generations to be accepting and tolerant through the broader culture, we don't need to enrage and trigger the conservatives. The last thing we want is make parents feel forced into segregating their children into conservative religious education, where the quality of education is likely to be lower and children will be inculcated with regressive ideas.