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Ottawa's Contempt for Unemployed Youth

Canada First Immigration Reform Committee
Box 332,
Rexdale, Ontario, M9W 5L3
Ph: 905-566-4455; FAX: 905-566-4820
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Paul Fromm, B.Ed, M.A. Director

November 5, 2014

The Editor,

The National Post,

365 Bloor St. East, 3rd Floor
Toronto, Ontario
M4W 3L4

Re: Unemployed youth should work for free,

Dear Sir:

Re: “Poloz’s tip for youth: Try working for free” (National Post, November 5, 2014), the advice of Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz is insulting. Volunteering should be a part-time commitment of employed or retired people, not a resume entry for unemployed youth.

Your report notes: “The central banker made the remarks a day after he told a Toronto business audience that 200,000 young Canadians are out of work, underemployed or back in school to improve their job prospects.”

Instead of wasting their youth doing volunteer work, they should be protesting outside the offices of the Minister of Immigration. With 200,000 young Canadians out of work, he has just announced the largest immigration intake in decades, 285,000 next year. And that’s in addition to the 265,000 this year, and, of course, the 491,000 temporary foreign workers.

As a further slap in the face to Canada’s 1.5-million unemployed and 900,000 underemployed involuntary part-time workers, Immigration Minister Chris Alexander actually insisted that this goosed up intake would help the economy. In a bizarre Hallowe’en announcement, he said: “We will welcome a record number of individuals who will contribute to our economy and labour market.”

The government continues to follow a callous policy of wage suppression and high unemployment. As for our own unemployed youth, let them do unpaid volunteer work? It’s a scandal!

Paul Fromm
Director
CANADA FIRST IMMIGRATION REFORM COMMITTEE