Richard Boraks BA, LLB

Barrister & Solicitor

55 Brown’s Line, Etobicoke Ontario   M8W 3S2

Tel: 416-588-8707 Fax: 416-588-8785

Email: boraks@workercanada.com

March 10, 2014

  

This letter is an invitation requesting your participation at the March 23, 2014 meeting of GTA trades employers and their foreign skilled workers. Attached please find the meeting’s particulars.

The Background

GTA trades employers are becoming increasingly bitter with Ottawa’s “Alice in Wonderland” skilled trades worker policies.

• The Canadian Federation of Independent Business has called Ottawa’s foreign worker changes this government’s worst business decision since 2006.

• The new Jobs Grant program will not train a significant number of workers. Any workers that are trained will not be on stream until at least 2017.

After foisting the “interim”, useless Jobs Grant program on the trades, government is again recycling the stud of European trades training programs.

Meanwhile, GTA employers are not allowed to hire the tens of thousands of trained European trades workers who are already on the GTA’s job sites.  

The last straw for many in the GTA’s Italian , Portuguese  Polish and other European communities  has  been government’s discriminatory, insulting , irrational and job killing program to grant an annual “freebie” quota of 25,000 , 2 year open work permits to Irish , English and French “holiday seekers” who do not require LMO’s , job offers or any skills background .

The 25,000 annual crop of fundamentally unskilled Irish, English and French “tourists “ is testament to the myth that Ottawa’s agenda has anything to do with jobs or the economy .

While Ottawa helps out its largely unemployable friends from ethnically superior jurisdictions, local officials are instructed to  harass the GTA’ s construction employers in a job killing effort to deny the sector to retain even 1,000 qualified workers from Italy, Portugal, Poland and other EU jurisdictions.

Ottawa’s ethnically motivated policies:

• Have forced GTA construction employers to lose control of their own job sites
• Are pandering to those who control the GTA’s “black economy”. Tens of thousands of illegal, European workers continue to pour into the GTA. Ottawa’s policies drive them  under the control of non market interests that are dangerously controlling job sites while  driving  up production costs
• Have created  a complete loss of respect for the integrity of the system

The Bureaucratic Agenda

The Fraser Institute and Asia Pacific Foundation reports on Ottawa’s inability to run immigration programs have  fueled GTA employers’  fears that the January 2015 roll out of the new Expression of Interest (EOI) immigration program is simply another Ottawa generated bureaucratic scam.

EOI is designed to benefit Commonwealth recruiters who will make fortunes pumping Canada with alleged workers whose only skills are writing English and creating fraudulent resumes.

The EOI program will be the final nail in the coffin of the GTA trades.

The Political /Ethnic Agenda

There is no evidence that Canadian voters fear productive European blue collar workers.

The campaign against skilled, European blue collar workers is not generated by or for the political “base”. It is generated by and for those who control the underground economy.   

If voters were unhappy with blue collar European workers, then Ottawa would not approve 1,400% more Alberta construction trades LMO’s than are allowed in the booming GTA trades sector.

Thus, the questions:

• Why is government killing legal GTA jobs, criminalizing legitimate employers,  pandering to the underground economy, increasing manufacturing costs, playing dangerous ethnic games and concurrently insulting a good portion the GTA’s political base? 

• Why does Ottawa encourage the underground, anti employer economy in the GTA but demands a legal, employer controlled economy in Alberta?

• Who will benefit from the GTA’s electoral free fall as the Italian, Portuguese, Polish and other communities express their disgust with the economic consequences of government’s ethnic priorities?

We look forward to seeing you on March 23, 2014.

Yours truly,

Richard Boraks

cc: The Hon. Jason Kenney