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  • Sorry it took some time for me to reply to your comment.

    The TFW program was initially meant to bring in hard to find specialists to help local enterprises. This system was corrupted under Harper to exploit unskilled foreign workers for jobs in Tim Horton's and other low-wage positions. Companies couldn't hire anybody anymore with their shitty low wages so they found a workaround to keep wages cheap.

    Later, as boomers started to retire, they increased the amount of immigrant workers that could enter the country to fill the missing positions. But they literally flooded the market with these workers to keep wages low. There were so many in fact that there wasn't enough positions for all of them. Many ended up doing Skip and Uber deliveries instead, living 5 people in a 1 bedroom apartment to make ends meet. This completely cut off any chances for local talent to access these new positions or even access entry level positions. That's why we still have entry level software engineer positions at 50-60k/year here in Montreal for example. (I was paid that when I graduated in 2008 btw, so adjusted for inflation, they are paid a LOT less than they should during a time where living expenses have never been so high.)

    This caused all kinds of pressures in Canada. On the job market, on rental housing, financial support programs, food banks, etc. Canadian citizens in need suddenly had all these other people to line up with for all these things and that's unfair.

    Sure we need immigration to cover lack of workers. But the rate at which they were let in was way too high.

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  • Let me reply again to you comment.

    The same cannot be said of flatpaks. AUR stands for Arch User Repo, which is a user-driven unofficial package source. Flatpak on the other hand has some official channels for certain software applications like Firefox for example.

    Now I've never used Arch or AUR, so correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think AUR has official software channels like flatpak does. Right?

    If I'm right, flatpak definitely is a lot safer than AUR. As long as you don't download your flatpaks from unofficial channels. This is actually a good advantage for Snaps which are thoroughly checked by Canonical.

  • LoL! What a load of BS.

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  • ~~Absolutely. ~~

    Actually, no. On second thought, let me reply again so you can see my new answer.

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  • That's a good point.

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  • Man that's why I don't use Arch. it's the wild west.

    In seeking to have all the latest bleeding edge software updates, you end up with malade like this because nobody has time to properly check anything .

  • because the NDP was corrupted by a rich lawyer.

    lol what?¿

  • No but they were also lying through their teeth so...

  • I stated playing Papers Please recently. This looks like the headlines in the morning paper in the game.

  • Oh yeah? You don't think the liberals have a role in enabling them?

  • TARRIFS!

  • ok. And what are the authorities going to do about it?

    I'll wait but I won't hold my breath.

  • With Carney, it would just be redundant to have PP as well. We already have a conservative leader in the parliament.

  • a country with a very small population rich in resources

    Sounds like Canada. Nationalize our resources and we're set.

  • I worked at a crown corporation which I cannot name for the past year as a consultant.

    About 90% of the IT employees were South Asians. Mostly Indians. Few of which were actually in India.

    And this is for a company that's critical for the Canadian economy.

  • You're totally right but I really think there's an issue with immigration nonetheless that's been going on for several years.

    The root cause though is corporate greed and the government that's in their pocket.

  • Are the majority of recent immigrants Indians?

    There sure has been a huge influx of Indians in Montréal since 2018. But, I know there was a huge fiasco about colleges that were created solely for Indian foreign students for profit. So I figured that was linked. But if it's Canada-wide, then it's something else.

  • It's a crime to not have universal basic income at this point. People aren't only unable to afford basic living expenses, but they're losing jobs to automation and AI already. What are these people supposed to do? Go beg on the streets?

  • hahahahahaha!

    That comment is going to be wildly unpopular.

    For starters, ONE billionaire is too many. A billion is a ridiculous amount of money. Saying France has "only" 40 is so incredibly disconnected.

    Nobody should be able to amass this level of wealth. And those who do, do it through sheer human exploitation and lack of ethics.

    The fact that they get to have such incredible wealth while the rest of us are struggling to make ends meet, and governments need to cut social services due to lack of funding is criminal.

    All the money is pooling into these peoples' hands and you're not asking yourself why? You don't think that taxing that amount of wealth even a little might help anything?

    I'd really like to hear why.

  • Right? Why is it always "make life harder for the working class" and never "make billionaires pay their fucking share"???