Another alternative:
Economy have never recovered for the Main Street since 2008 crash and all these news about labour shortage is just to manufacture consent to suppress wages even further.
Economy have never recovered for the Main Street since 2008 crash and all these news about labour shortage is just to manufacture consent to suppress wages even further.
https://www.npr.org/2021/10/13/1045463623/high-schoolers-are...
or "classic" moves like https://www.epi.org/blog/new-data-infosys-tata-abuse-h-1b-pr...
Basically "we can't hire anyone, so the government should get rid of regulations" this is why there has been like a 40 year nursing 'shortage'
You can't hire people if it's impossible to live where your jobs are. This is absolutely where we are today.
Remember that a "labor shortage" is always just a shortage at the current price.
It's pretty easy to imagine what those job ads look like (a million prerequisites and minimum wage). And subsequently the foreign workers are heavily taken advantage of since they can't switch jobs on that particular visa.
Edit - I should add that immigrants put up with it anyway as it gives a path to permanent resident status. The whole visa program erodes the bargaining power of Canadian workers and explains why there's so many jobs advertisements on Canadian job boards with absurdly low pay for the requirements; for example programming jobs that pay $17/hour.