🇨🇦 Rural BC begs Eby to approve more foreign workers while youth unemployment hits double digits

Business lobbies in Fort St. John want Ottawa's TFW cap raised from 10% to 15% of workforce, but it requires provincial sign-off. BC's government is stalling, claiming temporary foreign workers aren't a long-term solution. They're half right — for the wrong reasons. The real question: why are Canadian workers unavailable in regions desperate for labour? Because Trudeau-era policy flooded urban centres with low-wage migration while gutting resource sectors and pricing locals out of their own communities. Now rural employers can't compete with metro wage inflation driven by mass immigration demand.

Meanwhile, chambers of commerce frame survival as a binary: import more workers or close. No talk of training youth, adjusting wages, or questioning why we've engineered a labour market that can't function without permanent dependency on foreign temps. Sovereignty sold for cheap lettuce and low margins.

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