Labour Shortage

The greatest charity of all is to give someone a job and there’s a million of them out there. According to Statistics Canada there are 997,000 vacant positions in the second quarter of this year, the highest quarterly number on record. The working class aren’t working but why? The working class perform essential work. They work in restaurants, cook, serve our food, clean, work as cashiers, take care of the sick and the elderly. We devalue the working class yet who will build your house or fix your steps or mow your lawn or deliver your food or look after you when you’re old? Every trade is desperate to hire workers, but nobody seems to want the job. Parents understand that getting into the trades is the way to go but good luck convincing our kids of that. They look down on their hard-working parents. They want the highest pay possible for the least amount of work. Kids listen to social media influencers and are looking for get rich quick schemes. Who hasn’t fallen for that at least once? My Father’s words are true, “if it sounds too good to be true it is.” Working class people have low value today and the kids are picking up on this messaging from the time they reach grade 9. Am I the only one that thinks the education system in Ontario has dropped the ball and that this blatant lack of forethought has left some kids behind? Students are led to believe that post-secondary education is the only route to prosperity, and we devalue those kids who are more hands-on. By Grade 10 student’s start receiving glossy brochures from universities gleaming the amenities and showing happy smiling faces and the financial institutions incentivizing you to take out loans to pay for it all. The post-secondary institutions thrive because it is a multi-faceted money-making profit machine. Some say mass immigration is the answer but that comes at a cost too. Every city is dealing with a housing shortage and an under resourced healthcare system. Also check out Sweden, where come-one-come-all immigration. The value of work ethic in the previous generation was hard work pays off for those who work hard. It was taught in the home and unfortunately our schools have messed it all up by pushing their agenda that all must attend university or else.