On 2014-05-04 10:20 AM, sf wrote:

> Glad your son is learning a trade - at the very least, it will teach
> him what he *doesn't* want to do for the rest of his life. At best,
> it will mean lifetime employment. Great jobs of the future are those
> that can't be outsourced. Consulting doctors are outsourced easily to
> other countries like India, lawyers are a dime a dozen... but who cuts
> your hair, who refinishes your floors, who fixes the sink, who puts
> out fires? Real, living breathing people - not someone whose face you
> see on a computer monitor.
>

Don't bet too much on those jobs. We will always need seasonal farm
worked, but no one wants to do that work. It is too hard and pays too
little, so farmers use migrant labour, some of them legal others not to
much.

The dodo hit the fan here recently when it was revealed that a number of
businesses have been abusing the temporary foreign workers program to
displace Canadian workers. There have been a lot of farm workers
brought in from Mexico and the Caribbean, but that is seasonal work.
There have been a number of cases arising where hotels and fast food
restaurants have replaced their staff with temporary <?> foreign
workers. Hell... we are outsourcing labour to our own country.