Domestic Job Applicants and Canadian Federation of Independent Business

Canadian Federation of Independent Business: The reason they hire foreign temporary workers when 1.3 million Canadians are unemployed, they insist, is that they have a better work ethic than domestic job applicants. If we re not prepared to do these jobs and we dont want our kids to do them either yet we still want to go to the mall and find a clean bathroom and we still want someone to clean our hotel rooms why are we so afraid to allow people to come to Canada to happily do these jobs? asked Dan Kelly , head of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business according to The Star. Its time to have an adult conversation about the world of work, the president of the lobby group representing 109,000 small businesses declared last week. His comments came after the owner of three McDonalds franchises in Victoria was caught bringing in Filipino workers while cutting the hours of domestic staff and turning away Canadian job seekers. Kenney immediately launched a federal investigation, warning the franchise owner and any other employer who bypasses qualified Canadians that Ottawa would impose criminal sanctions. We will not tolerate it, the minister vowed. They will be put on the blacklist and as soon as monetary fines are in place, we will be throwing the book at them and Tired of being demonized by the media, denounced in Parliament and disciplined by Employment Minister Jason Kenney , Canadas small business owners are starting to push back. They re going to show up to work on time. They re going to work a full week without disappearing. They re not going to take off because they have to take their dog to the vet, he told CBC News. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.