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Protesters march in Brampton calling on an extension for all worldwide pupil employee permits set to run out in 2024-2025. (Picture: Amardeep Kaur on X)
Leaders from the Ontario Federation of Labour, Elementary Lecturers Federation of Ontario Peel, United Steelworkers Toronto Space Council, and Ontario’s trucking associations have thrown their help behind worldwide college students in Brampton who need to stay in Canada.
The union representatives had been in Brampton yesterday (Nov. 27) visiting encamped college students who’re prone to deportation as their visas and permits expire.
A number of of the scholars and former college students have arrange camp close to Freeway 410 to attract consideration to their trigger which they are saying stems from damaged guarantees made about their post-graduation careers.
The pushback from the scholars and the unions comes as Ottawa plans to scale back the variety of post-graduate work permits granted to overseas college students who’ve now completed faculty. The federal government additionally plans to restrict the size of time they’ll employees after commencement.
The unions say Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s authorities can also be responding to rising anti-immigrant sentiments attributable to the large variety of newcomers who’ve been allowed into Canada. Critics cost that overseas college students have taken over Canadian school and college campuses and are stealing away entry-level jobs at shops and eating places, jobs which have historically gone to younger individuals who have grown up on this nation.
It’s estimated that throughout the nation, 200,000 former overseas college students shall be advised to go away the nation below the brand new initiatives.
The overseas college students say they got here right here below packages meant to result in everlasting residency standing after graduating and discovering jobs. Now, modifications to authorities coverage imply they may not be allowed to remain.
“So many of us have been told we have to get out now,” Preet Kaur advised INsauga.com. “I myself have invested so much time and money, first to pay for education and now working for long hours for low pay. It’s not fair to change the rules on us.”
Unions have been backing the scholars who they are saying helped to bail out the Canadian financial system on the top of COVID when no person else needed to work.
One union official advised INsauga.com that the scholar/overseas staff drove vans and labored in logistic vegetation and warehouses in Brampton to verify Canadians nonetheless obtained items and companies.
“Many Canadians didn’t want to go to work during COVID and I can’t say that I blame them. But they still needed food and wanted to order their stuff from Amazon. Who do you think made that happen? It was the people who came from other countries,” mentioned the labour chief who was not licensed to talk on the file however nonetheless needed to touch upon the matter.
The trucking business particularly says that modifications to the work allow guidelines will imply labour shortages that can have an effect on the provision change.
“While all efforts are being made to recruit Canadians into the industry, immigration has long been a vital solution to this challenge, helping sustain the workforce needed to keep our country moving forward,” reads a discover from the Canadian Truck Operators Affiliation. “(These immigrants) have dedicated years to working, training, and contributing within the trucking industry…they now face an uncertain future.”
The scholars and unions are calling on the federal government to increase the work permits which are about to run out and supply a a good pathway to everlasting residency to these already within the system.
“The Trudeau government changed the goalposts without grandfathering current and former international students already in Canada into the new policies,” mentioned Simrat Kaur, one of many former worldwide college students who’s protesting as a result of her allow is expiring. “This has been devastating for us.”
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