Trudeau and Ontario Trades Immigration

We will have to wait and see what the Trudeau administration will do with Ontario’s trades worker immigration.

It will not be easy dealing with Ontario’s trades worker mess. Trudeau will have to walk the mine field of 300,000 illegals who are already employed in Ontario. Then there are the thousands of employers who need more foreign trades workers.

Joe Volpe was the last Minister who tried to come to terms with the foreign trades worker gorilla. He came close.

Nobody expects the perfect answer to a long lingering, difficult situation.

However, the trades worker situation can be addressed with a number of possible options and opportunities.

The key to dealing with the trades worker situation is to be open and honest about the difficulties, the opportunities and the solutions.

I have only one request of the new government: Please be upfront.

We just went through years of Jason Kenney’s manipulative and increasingly hysterical deceit on the subject of Ontario’s trades workers.

Kenney paid the price for lying to all of the people all of the time.

Let us hope that wiser heads will now prevail.  

Richard Boraks, October 21 2015