Senator urges 'Canadians First' policy

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I love this. So I can't find a Canadian to work for me, I hire a foreign worker and I have to pay $500 towards a fund to train a Canadian to do the job in the future and that Canadian may well be on the other side of the country and end up working for some one else! Is this guy serious? Once again, the businesses get slapped. I really wish these politicians would understand that businesses aren't big, evil institutions out to screw the world and everyone in it for a profit. Many of us have mortgaged or houses, racked up credit cards and lines of credits or borrowed from family or banks to get our businesses going. In case this genius hasn't noticed a huge portion of the poulation earn their living working for one of these businesses.

How does this senator (click that link for a some enlightening reading on these guys) think I can afford to pay an additional $500 per foreign employee? Why is it my responsibility? I already have to pay for my employees' retirement benefits and employment insurance. Again, why are those things my responsibility? Somewhere along the line business have been branded as greedy, evil machines that have cash oozing out of them. So of course they can pay for all sorts of things instead of leaving the individual person responsible for their own welfare - it has be come the burden of the business. I don't remember any of my employees offering me a helping hand to get things going or to keep the doors open. They simply stand their with their hands out as though I somehow owe them a living and it is my responsibility to look after them. I suppose this is indicative of our society. No one has any responsibility for anything - some one else will look after me and take the fall for my actions seems to be the prevailing mentality.

This is yet another good reason I am a member of the CFIB. Literally an organization whose sole purpose is to prevent the government from wiping out small business in this country. By the way, according to Statistics Canada's Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours data, on average in 2007, just over 5.1 million employees on payroll, or 48 percent of the total private sector labour force worked for small enterprises source. By making small business operations more difficult by introducing harebrained schemes like this, the Canadian government will continue to be responsible for playing a role in business going under and lives being shattered through bankruptcy and loss of jobs.