The same people fighting Alberta’s $15 minimum wage also supported using TFWs to keep wages down

Published June 30, 2016

Meet the same group of out-of-touch lobbyists and right-wing politicians who dismissed those saying temporary foreign workers were being used to keep wages down the usual cast of out-of-touch business lobbyists and right-wing politicians are already gearing up for a fight! That will be interesting, of course, because many of the people who are fighting Alberta's $15 minimum wage today are the same people who not too long ago defended the Temporary Foreign Worker Program and dismissed those who said the program was being used to keep wages down.

CFIB president: CPP expansion is a bailout for people who take a “trip to Mexico”

Published June 21, 2016

CFIB president Dan Kelly says Canadians might not be saving for retirement because they're having too much fun in the sun.

Yet another study confirms raising the minimum wage doesn’t hurt the restaurant industry

Published January 15, 2016

Business lobbyists won't like this.

Opponents of raising minimum wage are making minimum sense

Published June 23, 2015

Why doesn't the Canadian Federation of Independent Business want to pay people a living wage?

7 in 10 weren’t buying Jason Kenney’s lines on Temporary Foreign Workers

Published December 2, 2014

This sounds like a consensus. A newly disclosed internal poll commissioned by the Employment and Social Development Canada reveals that seven in 10 Canadians thought the Temporary Foreign Worker Program was being “abused” by employers who weren’t “doing enough” to hire Canadians. The poll, delivered to the department by Harris-Decima in early June 2014 just […]

Was Joe Oliver’s job creation plan that creates no jobs outsourced to business lobbyists?

Published October 13, 2014

It was a stunning conclusion. Despite word from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business that it would create “25,000 person years of employment,” it turns out the Conservative government’s “Small Business Job Credit” will only create an estimated 800 jobs. That works out to $687,500 per job created, since the “job credit” takes over a half of […]

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