Booming Canada recruits British and Irish workers because of labour shortages - Polidicks

[QUOTE]Visit any construction site in Calgary and you're likely to find some British and Irish workers, says Adrian Bourne, the boss of a company that supplies electricians in the Canadian city. Out of the 200 people that Mr Bourne has on his books, 70 are from the UK and Republic of Ireland. Mr Bourne, who is originally from Manchester, England, says he could do with dozens more from across the Atlantic. "If we put an ad in a [local Canadian] paper, we may get one response," says the president of Unitech Electrical Contracting. "[As a result], instead of bidding on three projects, we bid on one," says Mr Bourne, whose men are all busy working on the Calgary airport expansion, new office towers, schools, hospitals and retirement homes. "The number one question we get when closing a tender is, 'Have you got enough labour?'" he adds. As Alberta's economy continues to boom, led by its extensive oil industry, an estimated 114,000 additional trades positions need to be filled by firms of all sizes across the province by 2021. That projection comes from Calgary Economic Development (CED), a government agency dedicated to supporting the economy in the wider Calgary area. With too few Canadians to fill all the extra jobs, CED is now, twice a year, leading delegations of Alberta companies on trans-Atlantic recruitment hunts. CED's workforce manager Jeanette Sutherland last year led a party of Canadian firms attending a jobs fair in Dublin called Working Abroad Expo. "We were all quite shocked with the turnout," she says. "Over the course of three events, there were 14,000 people who attended. When the door opened the first day, there was a line-up around the field."[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25054229[/url]

God bless you Canada! [video=youtube;4RHVoFpncgA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RHVoFpncgA[/video]

I know so many people who are making a killing in albertas oil industry.

Sounds like in a few years there could be a population shift like the Highland Clearances when thousands of people in Scotland just upped and went to Canada, Australia and New Zealand for work.

Hire me you elves!

We complain about immigrants in our country... Canada wants immigrants in theirs... I think I see a possible solution to both.

You actually don't want to come to Alberta. We may have jobs but it's shit here and infested with conservatives.

[QUOTE=Taepodong-2;43081578]You actually don't want to come to Alberta. We may have jobs but it's shit here and infested with conservatives.[/QUOTE] It's not shit there, it's just cold as shit. BC has labour shortages too!

My dad is actually hiring some Irish workers that have to move here. I didn't know this was a thing.

I've got a uni degree in IT (networking), take me, no one here wants to hire me.

[QUOTE=Taepodong-2;43081578]You actually don't want to come to Alberta. We may have jobs but it's shit here and infested with conservatives.[/QUOTE] So what? What's the problem exactly? I'm no conservative, but nothing is terrible because of them either.

[QUOTE=Floreum;43081624]My dad is actually hiring some Irish workers that have to move here. I didn't know this was a thing.[/QUOTE] So what kind of work does he need doing? Just asking out of interest [sp]pls employ me[/sp]

[QUOTE=slamex;43081576]We complain about immigrants in our country... Canada wants immigrants in theirs... I think I see a possible solution to both.[/QUOTE] Ship all the bigots to Canada? They'll feel right at home next to the US.

[QUOTE=Floreum;43081624]My dad is actually hiring some Irish workers that have to move here. I didn't know this was a thing.[/QUOTE] will work for crumpets

Is there nobody here already to do these jobs? I just feel like we should be trying to get unemployed Canadians these positions before trying to import foreign workers.

[QUOTE=DaCommie1;43081701]Is there nobody here already to do these jobs? I just feel like we should be trying to get unemployed Canadians these positions before trying to import foreign workers.[/QUOTE] That's the issue, barely any Canadian citizens are actually applying. [quote]"If we put an ad in a [local Canadian] paper, we may get one response," says the president of Unitech Electrical Contracting. "[As a result], instead of bidding on three projects, we bid on one," says Mr Bourne, whose men are all busy working on the Calgary airport expansion, new office towers, schools, hospitals and retirement homes.[/quote]

[QUOTE=WeekendWarrior;43081718]That's the issue, barely any Canadian citizens are actually applying.[/QUOTE] That's rather sad, actually. Also, when they say local, do they mean local Calgary, or local Nationally, because I think there's a rather large migrant workforce out east, or at least, there was after fishing took a bit of a dive.

This is just a further abuse of the Temporary Foreign Worker program. If they're not getting responses to their job postings, it's because they're offering less money than what people can make elsewhere. But because of Alberta's failure of a provincial government, companies are now allowed to pay TFWs minimum wage despite the federal government requirement that they be paid market wages.

[QUOTE=Zeke129;43081960]This is just a further abuse of the Temporary Foreign Worker program. If they're not getting responses to their job postings, it's because they're offering less money than what people can make elsewhere. But because of Alberta's failure of a provincial government, companies are now allowed to pay TFWs minimum wage despite the federal government requirement that they be paid market wages.[/QUOTE] There is a shortage of skilled tradesmen.

[QUOTE=slamex;43081576]We complain about immigrants in our country... Canada wants immigrants in theirs... I think I see a possible solution to both.[/QUOTE] No.

[QUOTE=DaCommie1;43081701]Is there nobody here already to do these jobs? I just feel like we should be trying to get unemployed Canadians these positions before trying to import foreign workers.[/QUOTE] The jobs out west tempt me and you do get paid very well but from what I hear they are like 12 hour grueling physical labour days, sometimes more than 5 days a week and you are practically in the middle of no where northern Alberta. [editline]6th December 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Zeke129;43081960]This is just a further abuse of the Temporary Foreign Worker program. If they're not getting responses to their job postings, it's because they're offering less money than what people can make elsewhere. But because of Alberta's failure of a provincial government, companies are now allowed to pay TFWs minimum wage despite the federal government requirement that they be paid market wages.[/QUOTE] wtf are you talking about? The oil jobs pay good even for menial labour stuff. They are just tough as shit. Hence lazy privileged Canadians don't want to do them half of the time.

[QUOTE=Chrisordie;43081166]God bless you Canada! [video=youtube;4RHVoFpncgA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RHVoFpncgA[/video][/QUOTE] Tom Servo, sayin' it like it is.

They're talking about skilled labour, not mass.

[QUOTE=DaCommie1;43081701]Is there nobody here already to do these jobs? I just feel like we should be trying to get unemployed Canadians these positions before trying to import foreign workers.[/QUOTE] The jobs mentioned in the OP are high skill ones, such as electricians. You can't just take a random unemployed person and expect them to do what others may take years of training to do.

[QUOTE=Antdawg;43096229]The jobs mentioned in the OP are high skill ones, such as electricians. You can't just take a random unemployed person and expect them to do what others may take years of training to do.[/QUOTE] Yep. And that ties in with what others said, more skilled tradesmen retiring/leaving business less Canadian ones coming in. Hence why I'm in college for a skilled trade, should be a good career.

[QUOTE=DaCommie1;43081701]Is there nobody here already to do these jobs? I just feel like we should be trying to get unemployed Canadians these positions before trying to import foreign workers.[/QUOTE] there's a ludicrous amount of unemployment in ontario. would be cool to start increasing the irish, scottish and english population in the country but at the same time it's pretty dumb that they resorted to this before even considering unemployment in canada.

[QUOTE=Bruhmis;43100015]there's a ludicrous amount of unemployment in ontario. would be cool to start increasing the irish, scottish and english population in the country but at the same time it's pretty dumb that they resorted to this before even considering unemployment in canada.[/QUOTE] But the firm mentioned in the article did post job ads within Canada. And when they do that they may only get one response.

The downside to all of this is that the lineup at Timmy's will get larger.

[QUOTE=Bruhmis;43100015]there's a ludicrous amount of unemployment in ontario. would be cool to start increasing the irish, scottish and english population in the country but at the same time it's pretty dumb that they resorted to this before even considering unemployment in canada.[/QUOTE] People from all across Canada move to Alberta. Alberta needs more workers because of its oil industry.