LogFAQs > #942214312

xjayguyx posted...

That doesn't tell me that they don't feel they are human, that tells me that they feel Canada can't afford to take in so many immigrants/refugees.. and well we can't.

We did, and the country didn't fall apart for it. The joys of empiricism, huh?

zebatov posted...

And I never said it was a circle of my friends. Whats with you guys and assuming anything other than whats been written?

You discuss politics and epidemiology with people outside of your circle of friends? Presuming, of course, that "circle of friends" includes coworkers with whom you're on cordial terms (already mentioned) and family members (I would consider that implicit, but not actually stated). Personally, I'd call that a pretty reasonable inference, given that the alternative is to assume that you've discussed these matters with a randomly selected representative sample of strangers, and that would be hard to believe even if you had explicitly claimed that.

zebatov posted...

This is what theyll be staying in, btw. The rooms are about 6x8.

And those buildings are typically owned by the employers and the workers are required to pay rent for living in them, quite dramatically reducing what the employer ends up effectively paying them (since they get a large chunk of the money back). That is one of the more glaring issues with the TFW program, and has been since its inception. It was bad that Harper allowed it, and it's also bad that Trudeau hasn't fixed it since taking over, since it's so flagrantly abusive to the workers.

Until such a time as legislation is introduced to establish minimum standards, though, your ire is probably better directed at the employers that subject their workers to such conditions, rather than at the absence of laws prohibiting such behaviour. That is, after all, where the actual abuse lies. Legislation will hopefully come in due course, but for now, try to focus on the actual cause.

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