A Small but Positive Development for Trucking in Canada
Are Canadian bureaucrats paying attention? Unbelievably, it seems like it.
From my good pal in Saskatoon Trent Lalonde (who was once a guest on my podcast) comes some forwarded news from the Canadian Government; it appears they are getting the message about the driver shortage narrative being an utter falsehood that has done nothing but make existing truckers lives worse and our paychecks smaller.
According to the Government of Canada’s own website -
An administrative update was made regarding the Certificate of Qualification occupations listed in the National Occupation. The NOC code for transport truck drivers has been removed.
What this means is that it is going to be much more difficult for someone claiming to be a trucker from another country having that particular skill count towards an application for Permanent Residency in Canada.
As anyone paying attention understands, the driver shortage narrative has always been a lie, and in America at least, used as a vehicle to divert taxpayer funds to MegaCarriers in a system of stealth corporate welfare masked as a jobs program. I haven’t been home in a few years, but I’m sure that’s the case in Canada as well, although Canada has plenty of other problems with the driver shortage narrative.
A story I have shared here many, many times, that should be a stain on the reputation of Justin Trudeau’s government for having done nothing to correct it, is the system of human trafficking that many of our Indian friends in Vancouver have used to bring poor and often illiterate young men from India to Canada, and then send them out over the rockies in Big Rigs without a god damned clue what they are doing; all the while holding the Visas/Work Permits over these mens heads. Take this load to Toronto, or else.
If you have been following me for awhile and haven’t read this story yet -
here you go., care of the Globe and Mail.
And let us not forget the Humboldt Tragedy, where a recent arrival who didn’t have the right to be driving my lawnmower, killed 16 people while behind the wheel of a truck pulling a Super B train, having had a total of only four weeks of experience driving.
Zooming out a little bit, Canada is having a major housing crisis, with some of the highest average real estate prices in the world causing an acute shortage of housing, the government health care system is in crisis, unable to deliver care to the people who paid for it in a timely fashion, if at all (nevermind the recent arrivals laying claim to ‘free’ health care) inflation is rampant, and our absolutely retarded Prime Minister has decided that adding one million people a year to the mix is the solution to the problem.
If you are a trucker in Canada, over the past few years you have suffered greatly under the regime of Justin Trudeau - from terrible energy policies which drive up the cost of fuel, the imposition of a copycat ELD mandate imported from the US, to making your lives extremely difficult during Covid, and then treating you as terrorists and unleashing the full force of the state against you for having the temerity to say “Enough is Enough”, and then artificially deflating your wages by allowing the importation of wide swathes of the third world to move here and undercut your rates.
Any little piece of good news is welcome at this time, and this small move towards stemming the tide of people into the industry, especially when the country is in no way materially capable of absorbing or integrating them, given our current problems, is a step in the right direction.
As always, questions, comments, suggestions, and Hate Mail, are welcomed and strongly encouraged -
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