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Proudly Outsourcing your Birthright

by Barry ORegan | May 30, 2007 at 06:01 am

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Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor

Well, I think I already warned Now Public readers on this yesterday when I stated this in my story on "Is Air Canada outsourcing our Safety" and added an update on the dangers of outsourcing our Birthright.

Your children and your children's, children future can certainly be at stake in the outsourcing wars.

The issue of outsourcing our Birthright is just around the corner and in our own backyard.

An offshore Asian firm is looking to open pit coal mine in British Columbia, and is currently considering importing 400 Chinese Miners under the false assumption that North American miners are non existent. Is the lure of cheap offshore labour and an opportunity to fast track the Chinese miners into Canada as future landed immigrants an incentive? Will the Asian Job centre in China have a lineup longer than the Great Wall of China if this goes through. What better way to escape an oppressive regime than offering your soul to corporates? They will certainly have no shortage of takers.

Where is our elected government's stand in all this, a government that is supposed to protect our interests? One wonders.

My personal thought
The next person outsourced in the future will be you. So in ending, I have taken the Liberty of developing Canada's first Ministry Logo and titled this new Canadian Government department the "Ministry of Outsourcing", whose Motto is "Proudly serving everyone but Canadians!" a fitting title, I mean who are we kidding here, this is your future! I calls it likes I sees it.

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at 11:07 on May 30th, 2007

As a person who worked in BC's mining industry, I can assure you the lack of workers is simply because the bar is set too high. Try getting a job at Teck Cominco or any other mine in BC. They won't even hire a janitor without a grade 12 and a dozen or so other courses under his or her belt.

Can I assume these Chinese workers all have what is equivalent to a grade 12?

Canada is well under way to being like countries like Saudi Arabia for example; most of the workers are imported while the domestic unemployment rate approaches 40%. What can we expect when we, as a country, treat foreigners better than our own people.

The present rhetoric and lies surrounding the "worker shortage" will one day be exposed, probably after it is too late, when wages are reduced to a third world level and that pesky middle class is eliminated. As long as Canada's mainstream media remains on the same page as government and big business, we are doomed.