These are the smaller communities Canadians are moving to

[daftandbarmy]

Working down at the Vancouver Drydock Shipyard, the median age of workers is roughly around 55. The newer Seaspan shipyard is doing better, but there is a looming shortage of skilled trades workers.

I attended a presentation by their CEO, and most of the audience were from post-secondary institutions in BC.

He said his office 'looked like UN headquarters' because there were few Canadians qualified enough to fill the roles there.

He challenged BC post-secondary institutions to focus on pumping out graduates with the qualifications that he needed to hire them versus, you know, history degrees (like mine) etc

 

[Colin Parkinson]

But the post-secondary institutions would need instructors and courses to teach that stuff and the people who do that stuff are not woke enough and generally are foreigners who don't think correctly.

 

[Brad Sallows]

I am already seeing the domestic kids working for immigrant managers.

Kids born in Canada and even those who immigrated very young (< 4 yrs) are essentially "domestic kids". Don't be misled by skin colour.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Yea but they have an immigrant mom who wields a spatula.

 

[dimsum]

Kids born in Canada and even those who immigrated very young (< 4 yrs) are essentially "domestic kids". Don't be misled by skin colour.

Sort of. That generation bridges the gap - they have the English and local cultural knowledge of a "domestic kid", but more often than not the cultural influence of a stereotypical "immigrant".

It's almost like a Jekyll/Hyde thing - what they are like to the outside world can be very different to what they are like to their family.

Ask me how I know.

 

[SeaKingTacco]

Yea but they have an immigrant mom who wields a spatula.

And a Grandma, too. I’ll bet it is no fun getting double team spatulas when you don’t get your homework done…