{"id":82,"date":"2013-04-09T19:36:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T19:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merleajacobs.com\/?p=82"},"modified":"2013-04-09T19:36:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T19:36:12","slug":"canadian-students-were-are-your-jobs-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merleajacobs.com\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"Canadians! wake up; Where are your jobs going?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. RBC article Kathy Tomlinson<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/li>\n
  2. Advocate! Click on\u00a0 MP<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 – as you owe this to yourself.\u00a0 This is not fair.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n
  3. Our students pay at least $1000.00 a course, take 20\u00a0courses and then cannot find work in Canada.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Awakening\u00a0to the news today, and after speaking to a graduate student, I found myself not only upset but angry.
    \nThe IT\u00a0 professor on CBC’s The Current was not in the least upset that his students would have to upskill\u00a0\u00a0 – as he said, because their jobs could go to less expensive labour markets somewhere out there in our global world. My first question out loud – then why are you teaching them YOUR course which pays you and will cost them?<\/p>\n

    The RBC\u00a0‘s action<\/strong> <\/a>to use a third party is not about pitting worker against worker but points to a larger problem.\u00a0 Canadian companies in Canada are taking\u00a0jobs from\u00a0Canadians and are\u00a0providing\u00a0jobs\u00a0in foreign countries\u00a0while selling their products to Canadians. Help me understand. Some on the left do not wish to talk about ‘foreign workers’ as it involves issues of social justice, but please look at our population in Toronto. These are the children of ‘foreign immigrants’ who need to work in Toronto. This is not about migrant workers, this is about profit at all cost. On the right, they just don’t talk about bad social policies.<\/p>\n

    The bottom line, we need work for our graduates. Thay\u00a0cannot find work even at Tim Horton’s<\/a>\u00a0 (where you find them studying) <\/strong>who received premission to bring in temporary workers – 15,000 of them in 2012.
    \nWhen I came to Canada, a racialized woman it was about a\u00a0country where one came to develop and contribute. Today, we ask new Canadians to come, and to work, yet the very talent that brought them to Canada is out sourced to countries like India.<\/p>\n

    As well, our graduates should not have to go to China or India to find work while their jobs are\u00a0 taken to these countries by third parties who are also registered\u00a0with our government to insource 15% cheaper labour.<\/p>\n

    The\u00a0 Harper Government<\/strong> <\/a>is responsible for this deplorable sitution, and while MPs discuss this issue -Canadians are displaced from their jobs. This vision of cheap labour is outdated and careless.
    \n54,500 jobs lost in March. Canadians have been careless as well. We need to write our MPs and hold them responisble for this and other actions. After all we pay them and they need to be held accountable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    RBC article Kathy Tomlinson\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Advocate! Click on\u00a0 MP\u00a0 – as you owe this to yourself.\u00a0 This is not fair.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our students pay at least $1000.00 a course, take 20\u00a0courses and then cannot find work in Canada. Awakening\u00a0to the news today, and after speaking to a graduate student, I found myself not only upset but angry. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merleajacobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merleajacobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merleajacobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merleajacobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merleajacobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merleajacobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merleajacobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merleajacobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merleajacobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merleajacobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}