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Grads Face Poor Job Prospect, Years of Unemployment or Underemployment but The Immigration Gates Stay Wide Open
Dick Eastman
June 1, 2013
This year's college and high school graduates enter a grim job market. National unemployment stands at 1.4-million. Many of these students or their parents have racked up huge debt to pay for their post secondary education. A recent Globe and Mail (May 24, 2013) report entitled "Grads heading into a labour market maelstrom: Young people face hyper-cautious employers, precarious jobs and a bulge of baby boomers hogging the best opportunities." Nevertheless, the heartless immigration crack addicts in all political parties, egged on by greedy businesses and the self-interested immigration lobby (immigration lawyers, ESL teachers, social workers, ethnic warlords, and ideological true believers in the mission to replace the European founding/settler people of this country) keep the yearly flood, mostly from the Third World at about 265,000, augmented by nearly 400,000 workers on "temporary permits" to dim our graduates' prospects even more.
If ever there was a time that justified an angry youth revolt against a heartless political establishment, this is it!
The Globe reported: "Trainee may be the rarest of first jobs available to the class of 2013. That’s because this year’s university graduates are part of the outsourced generation – a crop of job seekers looking for work within organizations that contract out much of what they once did in-house. Lost in this upheaval are many of the classic entry-level jobs that for earlier generations were stepping stones to something better.
“It’s a reflection of the changing nature of the labour market,” explained Wayne Lewchuk, a labour economist at McMaster University in Hamilton. 'Employers are unwilling to commit to anyone long-term, except to the core of their work forces."
Graduates "are heading into a maelstrom of labour surpluses, hyper-cautious employers, precarious jobs and a bulge of baby boomers hogging the best opportunities, according to CIBC senior economist Benjamin Tal, who wrote the recent report The Haves and Have-Nots of Canada’s Labour Market. 'We have a generation graduating now that is extremely disadvantaged,' Mr. Tal said."
"Labour surplus" and not enough jobs for our own graduates, yet our government continues to keep the immigration hordes coming! This is little short of insanity or treason or both!
Mr. Tal's next statement all but admits that many in the Class of 2013 may be condemned to 15 years of unemployment, underemployment and McJobs which will not provide them with the career security to start a family. This situation is extremely dysgenic for the European founding/settler people of Canada. "Mr. Tal worries that it may be six years before prospects brighten significantly for today’s under-30s, and 15 years before labour shortages will draw many into the work force." Today's graduates could be in their late 30s before they have a decent job on which to build and support a family.
For years, the immigration lobby, despite intractable high unemployment, has assured us that labour shortages are just around the corner and, so, we must bring in large numbers of newcomers, many with few discernible job or language skills. Now, we have the truth: The "labour shortage", as any reasonable person looking at our unemployment rate would conclude, is a lie. There isn't one.
Continued immigration merely throws more competition in the way of this year's graduates, ensures many will remain unemployed or sub-employed, frustrated and stymied.
Now,. more than ever, Canada needs at least a five-year moratorium on all immigration to give our graduates a fighting chance to get the jobs they've trained for and to reduce the ranks of Canada's unemployed.
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