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Roy Brander's avatar

I'm not sure where the TFW in the coffee shops are supposed to live. When you import tolerance for low wages, you're importing tolerance for low lifestyles, down to tents.

I think the coffee shops could stay open if the minimum wage would just bring out existing Canadians for staff. A high minimum wage would mean the whole coffee-house market would shrink a bit, but how much, really? People shell out $9 for those calorific frappuccinos.

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Minimal Gravitas's avatar

Good stuff. I mostly agree, thought I think that it should be a goal to try and keep as many highly educated graduates that we produce as possible; these are typically enterprising, intelligent people with some familiarity with the country and networks developed while studying. Why not keep as many as possible, and expand the share of overall immigration that we count on coming via our post secondary system?

Incidentally, Heath currently has a post out (you might’ve been the one to tell me that InDueCourse was now on Substack?) and he’s argued that Canada should lean into its comparative advantage in educating foreigners at scale and treat it as a high-end “export” industry.

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