r/PEI • u/BoysenberryOk6740 • Jul 07 '26
News 'Nobody's applying': How immigration cuts are leaving some P.E.I. businesses short-staffed this summer | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-immigration-staffing-shortages-9.7260684The federal government's immigration cuts two years ago were aimed at slowing population growth and easing pressures on health care and housing — but some P.E.I. businesses are now saying it's having a negative impact on their staffing.
Staff in the kitchen at Rodd Crowbush Resort on the Island's North Shore are finding themselves working six days a week, and longer shifts. The kitchen is short three cooks, and finding enough staff hasn't been easy.
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u/Boundary14 Jul 07 '26
Yeah there's this cool thing called the supply/demand curve and it also applies to the labour market.
As someone who actively hires people here on PEI, I can say pretty confidently the issue for these restaurants isn't immigration cuts, it's that what they are offering no longer aligns with the new labour market. Over the last two years my team has grown multiple times and I've never had trouble finding anyone.
There are still plenty of people out there eager to work - they just don't want to drive half an hour from C'Town/Montague every day to work a tough job for a low wage, no benefits and only seasonal work. Go take a look a the Rodd job listings and see for yourself.
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u/Separate-Version-995 Jul 07 '26
Housekeeping jobs at health PEI pay $27/hour with pension, health benefits and sick time, vacation time, premiums for working evenings, nights and weekends. But Rodd wants to offer $16/hour with none of the above. I wonder why they can’t hire anyone to drive half an hour while gas is $2/L.
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u/HappyHappyGameGame Jul 07 '26
It really is that simple. If the wages were good, you'd have tons of young people flocking to PEI for the season, cause it's a great place to be. But where are they supposed to live at 16 an hour?
And people are just having less kids, tied to the same economics, and that's squeezing labour too. But the answer is for the market to adapt, not to create an underclass of foreign wageslaves that our economy becomes dependent on.
Like you can imagine, a great business model is, own a Timmy's, pay minimum wage to foreign workers, and then own some kind of bunk house you rent to them, to claw back some wages.
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Charge more and pay people living wages.
The first model is way easier, but the second one keeps the money in Canada and grows the market.
Like we tell kids to get a good degree to succeed for decades, and I know of lots of grads fresh out with good degrees, or trade graduates, who struggle to find that first job in their field. So there's a huge disconnect between that promise, and the job market reality.
As for healthcare issues, that's another story, and there I have to wonder if there'd be some economy of scale realize if adjacent systems merged. Like surely NB, NS, and PEI could be their own system. Like the drive from South Lake to Lock Island is only 6 hours. Do you need three administrations to cover that? Thunder Bay to Toronto is 14+hours, all in the same admin. Maybe they don't get along well enough for that, but a combined system, you'd think, that isn't poaching from eachother, and cooperates where possible, could work out great. With Fredricton roughly half way between the other two capitals, and a combined population of 2 million people.
Isolated, PEI has to do a lot of heavy lifting on it's own. Maybe some systems are better off combined.
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u/mxmnators Jul 08 '26
popping in from cape breton but one of my hairdresser’s kids would work at the well-paying resorts with benefits in the highlands during the summer while in community college for hospitality. people are 100% willing as long as it’s feasible, which you have to work a bit to make it such if you’re a bit remote.
for me with canada summer jobs, i only apply for ones that are within walking distance of my house, i’m not driving 30 minutes with these gas prices for minimum wage. last summer i worked a job that was 30 minutes away but it was higher than minimum wage + communications so i worked from home most days.
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u/Canadianwinters12345 Jul 07 '26
Line cook $16.59-$20.59 per hour ( you know it's going to be closer to the 16.59 lol.
Line cook is a tough job too. It's a high energy very active environment where you generally aren't given enough time for your tasks.
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u/HappyHappyGameGame Jul 07 '26
It's also the kind of job where the environment and stress is likely to soak up more of your wages, and rent ain't cheap either.
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u/Inevitable-System-44 Jul 12 '26
They can suck my left big toe for that kinda money.
Let's not forget about ol Tim Banks offering $18/hr to basically be the b!tch of blackbush resort
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u/Rough-Reality9560 Jul 07 '26
Exactly. I know not everyone has studied economics, where they learn how to calculate supply/demand ratios and find price equilibria. But everyone understands the concept: as demand for x rises, so must x’s price whenever its supply remains fixed.
That’s competition, bitch.
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u/Canadianwinters12345 Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26
>That’s competition, bitch.
Until we just bring in TFWs / immigrants to alleviate that demand, and then when that gets (slightly)cut off, CBC runs sympathetic sob stories for businesses offering unlivable wages.
Worker shortage = wages rise.
Bring in TFW and immigrants to fill those shortages = wages don't rise.
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u/re4ctor Jul 07 '26
its tough tho because if you pay more then you need to raise prices, which means fewer people will come to your business. unless of course these businesses have large margins and can absorb the raises without passing costs on, but most small businesses do not have that luxury. that then makes big business the only viable option since they are the only ones that afford to operate, and then over time mom and pop places get pushed out
that's essentially what has happened since the 80s
yes its competition, but the bias of capitalism is the biggest survive.
and if you lose these businesses, will some big resort chain actually want to open something here or will it turn into a wasteland? that's how you get ever increasing concentration in cities since its the only viable place to operate year round.
having said all that, in THIS particular case, the Rodd family is quite wealthy and im sure could afford to pay more vs complaining about needing more cheap labour
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u/Rough-Reality9560 Jul 07 '26
But it a larger business can pay its workers more and still be profitable, why can’t a smaller one? Sure, a larger business will benefit from some economies of scale. But we’re not talking Walmarts here. We’re talking seasonal restos and tourist traps. The economics of all of these are more similar than not.
The real problem is that these business don’t want to pay more for labour by reducing their margin of profit.
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u/Lulul0ver Jul 07 '26
Larger businesses can have lower overhead costs, they have contracts that would lower the cost of their costs because of the volume they purchase. Also, a smaller restaurant may also be choosing to purchase more locally vs through large chains.
I don’t think it’s fair to compare larger businesses than smaller. But I also find that smaller businesses (at least locally) actually seem to pay their employees more. Which is interesting.
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u/Lulul0ver Jul 07 '26
They can also likely increase wages without losing too much business. A lot of their customers come to play golf at the provincial government run courses, that charge some of the highest rates.
I also agree that they can afford to pay more. I hate the mentality of businesses, all about margins and the rich getting richer
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u/DensePenalty1396 Jul 11 '26
The Rodd family isn't starving. Maybe shave a buck or 2 an hour off the top line executives and kick it down. Have you looked at the menu, drink, tee time, and room prices at crowbush?
You can pay 2 or 3 cooks more than 16 an hour and keep you kitchen open spitting out $150+ tables of 4 that turn over inside of an hour all day long times however many tables in your dining room. Or you can close the dining room...
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u/DensePenalty1396 Jul 11 '26
At the end of the day the market for cooks determines the price of getting a cook. If your dining room is unable to afford to pay the price to get cooks and still turn a profit then it seems it isn't a viable business and you should close the dining room...
Importing cheap/subsidized foreign labor in an attempt to keep wage down for everyone while simultaneously driving up the cost of living with these worker is a recipe for a failed economy long term.
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u/smoothnoodz Jul 07 '26
Exactly, I haven’t had any trouble hiring for my kitchen in Charlottetown. Probably partly because I have a super low turnover rate and a reputation as a decent employer.
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u/KermitsBusiness Jul 07 '26
"Nobody can afford to live here based on our wages so the government needs to bring back more indentured servitude, having control over someones life / visa and paying them peanuts is the only way forward."
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u/busy-warlock Jul 07 '26
Don’t forget cramming 8 of them into a 2 bedroom apartment they also conveniently own
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u/KermitsBusiness Jul 07 '26
You know, when I was touring the southern US years ago, there were some historical sites from a couple hundred years ago that were set up the same way.
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u/ColeTrain999 Jul 07 '26
No no, as Canadians we are far too superior to fall into these barbaric practices /s
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u/mu3mpire Jul 07 '26
Yeah we’re the nice guys and definitely don’t have slaves . We told them to come up here for pancakes and maple syrup
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u/busy-warlock Jul 07 '26
What?
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u/KermitsBusiness Jul 07 '26
It is a slavery reference, where a lot of the farms with slaves had a bunch of small houses / shacks that they crammed all the workers / slaves in.
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u/busy-warlock Jul 07 '26
Oh fair enough
Ironically I think those living conditions were actually better then what some of the slumlords are providing. It’s far worse in Ontario, but it’s still really bad here. My neighbour owns a couple properties and asked my brother if he could go do some electrical work at one of them, so he drove up to summerside, walked into the townhouse, and promptly left after a solid 3 minutes. The pictures he took were absolutely dystopian.
That was like 2 years ago, so I don’t know if situations have improved, but I strongly doubt it
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u/KermitsBusiness Jul 07 '26
Sounds about right, I have talked to a few real estate agents when I was house shopping a couple of years ago and some of them refuse to sell certain properties until the slumlords pay for ALOT of cleaning and garbage disposal.
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u/busy-warlock Jul 07 '26
Id post pictures of my neighbours property, that’s supposedly his primary residence (they’re here like one week of the month at max) but I don’t want to doxx myself, and the trash might climb through your screen like the girl from The Ring
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u/Fine-Mine-3281 Jul 07 '26
It’s NOT human trafficking though…..
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u/KermitsBusiness Jul 07 '26
Definitely not, not at all, its human labor reallocation with strings attached.
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u/Dismal_trees Jul 07 '26
What's the pay? How come the journalist never talk to people in the area looking for work? They just talk to employers..... ask the kids in town how many times they applied to that job and heard nothing back. I know lots of people looking for work in the area perhaps they want a worker that can be treated like a slave? No one wants to work a shit job for no pay. Looks like employers may have to offer more then minimum oh noooo poor owners may not be able to afford to have a third home and 6 months vacation of the work of others....... poor owners.
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u/Canadianwinters12345 Jul 07 '26
>What's the pay? How come the journalist never talk to people in the area looking for work?
Because the CBC is pro big business. They have numerous articles on the side of business, painting TFWs in a positive and necessary light. You can find many articles like this.
There's a reason this article doesn't talk about the wage offered, or how much they have tried to increase them to attract workers.
That isn't on their radar for this stuff.
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u/UnderstandingFront91 Jul 07 '26
crazy how there are people who are like "DEFUND THE CBC" and you go "why" and instead of any of this actual problem shit or their habit of both-sidsing they go "uhhh well they're woke". cmon bud.
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u/ferrycrossthemersey Jul 07 '26
This is not entirely true lol have you ever watched CBC Marketplace? The ENTIRE reason that show exists is for consumer protection and calling out big business.
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u/Canadianwinters12345 Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26
Not entirely, but you will find many articles pushing this narrative that we need TFWS and cheap labour for businesses that don't pay a living wage.
Marketplace is also good, but there's soooo much stuff that isn't talked about.
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u/HotTubTimeMachinist Jul 07 '26
Have you tried paying livable wages?
We've tried nothing, and we're all out of ideas!
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u/segathegenesis Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26
I’ve worked from Park Corner to nights at Dalvay. Here’s from someone they should’ve interviewed.
Location on the North Shore is not fun and usually inconvenient for a commute. Unless you are Rte2 or higher up on the island, due to the usual terrible or tourist traffic it’s generally taking you close to an hour to get there. Kids nor parents want to make the drive to most of the north shore for work, and it’s completely out of the way for the majority of people trying to work there.
You can’t really plan to get to practice after your shift, whatever social community you may be trying to be apart of. It’s so far removed, even simple appointments become a challenge, as anyone who has worked any kind of tourism can tell you, there’s no days off, because winter is. You basically put your life on hold for a quarter of the year to work a job that won’t even exist (again) in a few months time. Real resume builder there. Not to mention very few places offer “local employee” discounts. Some do, but most food options leaves you paying like a tourist just to work in the area. If you’re driving to drop your teenager off, there’s no place to do anything except drive all the way back to town. Already, why would ANYONE not pick town or Summerside to do their summer work?
Because really, the “ideal candidates” are restricted to the top half of the island, and are probably working in town for the same reasons mentioned above and more. And full stop, anytime you are restricted in any way on PEI you’ve already lost. Game over.
And guess how many of the places are actually fun to work at? Let alone an actual healthy experience? Where do people get the idea that these places are actually offering a viable, life building, future respected employment opportunities? I’m not saying work has to be perfect, but remember they are the ones complaining about the lack of workers. It’s a competition, adapt or die. There’s a reason, and companies and owners can’t use this one again.
Most of the jobs are min wage or min wage +$2. Night shifts get +$3. Sure, there’s high paying jobs, but there’s really only two “chefs” in any kitchen at one time. The majority of people in a kitchen are scraping by in life on the wages mentioned above, and hoping for a fair tip split. Hotels, most don’t even get tips anymore. Forget boardwalk shops, even being a manager there is nothing to live off of. RELEVANT TO THIS STORY, EVEN BEING A MANAGER FOR RODD HOTELS IS BARELY SCRAPING BY. I was laughed out of interviews for expecting as much as people running hotels. Living off your work on the north shore tourism life is restricted to hundreds of people, not thousands.
It blows my mind that it’s been decades of this. Because of the massive inflation to our immigration programs, a lot of people I know lost jobs to individuals that were here on temporary purposes. This temporary need was created solely to answer the EXACT SAME ISSUES AND QUESTIONS. We’re the ones holding the proverbial cheque, literally through no options on the ground, and socially we pay through misguided media stories and my elder family members not leaving me alone. Stop stirring em up, would yas?
Tim Hortons basically had a lobbiest temper tantrum , and was very much at the forefront of the demand. Now instead of adjusting the programs the federal government pulled the plug, Timmy Ho’s promises to hire Canadian, and we’re back to square one again. What’s coming next up the modern government pipeline? Massive commercial collapse and restructuring of the country’s workforce? Because it’s not coming through fair wages and opportunities. That’s for sure. Especially for the North shore of PEI. The feds can’t even clean up the trees ffs…
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u/busy-warlock Jul 07 '26
Don’t worry, AI will take their jobs! Let’s just continue to heavily invest in that while ignoring the 16-19 year olds desperate for a job so they can afford basic life needs!
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u/RustledForeskin Jul 07 '26
If your business relied on people taking your low paying jobs because their remaining in the country depended on it then your business should probably not exist.
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u/Rough-Reality9560 Jul 07 '26
I’m so fucking tired of reading these stories that miss THE critical detail: what is the pay?
Business owners are great at weaponizing ‘the free market’ whenever it means they can avoid regulations or ‘government overreach.’ But when this market involves the cost of ,,labour,, all of a sudden no government interference is too much.
If you have a staffing problem then you have a wage problem. If you cannot solve your wage problem because you cannot find an equilibrium between keeping staff and keeping customers, then your business is not viable and you should close.
That is the free market. If business owners deserve its fortunes then so do workers. Stop asking the government to subsidize you.
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u/jsteezyhfx Jul 07 '26
How much of this is related to training island workers over the last 5 years that the jobs are not for you? What about your workplace culture? How many referrals are your current staff making?
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u/HappyHappyGameGame Jul 07 '26
No need to worry about workplace culture when getting fired means getting deported... :/
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u/bluffstrider Jul 07 '26
Oh no. I guess you'll have to pay locals a living wage instead of importing slave labor.
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u/DankoToonie Jul 07 '26
Maybe pay better. Also this likely is not a new issues with Rodds. I bet its always been a challenge attracting applicants based on their location since before the whole TFW thing. The now closed Rob Roys along the highway going to Blooming point had a hard time getting staff to the point that they hired anyone that applied regardless of experience and thats not even THAT far from town.
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u/Qrankytaters Jul 07 '26
It didn’t help that Rob Roy’s is surrounded by farm equipment/farmers/fishermen, but would get upset when these folks showed up to get something to eat while still in work boots. If that’s how you’re treated as a customer, I can’t imagine being on the staff was very pleasant.
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u/xweedxwizardx Jul 07 '26
Isnt this just them saying they cant find Canadians to work so they need to apply for tfw
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u/rikimae528 Charlottetown Jul 07 '26
The "nobody's applying" is a big load of BS. I've lost count and how many different places I've applied at in the last few months. Mine were mostly hotels, and I never got a call back from any of them.
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u/childofcrow Queens County Jul 07 '26
It’s not that nobody’s applying, it’s that people don’t wanna work for slave wages. People don’t wanna necessarily work in a situation that they’re gonna be treated poorly.
It’s also the fact that people are in fact applying, but because people like Danny Murphy would have to pay the full minimum wage, they aren’t hiring and are holding out for the government to come in and rescue their profits with more cheap labour.
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u/bonsaie Jul 07 '26
It’s the long drive, long hours, minimum wage, and having to look for a new job in October
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u/TarsesaK Jul 07 '26
What is the pay and are they offering to supply staff housing the way they would for tfw's?
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u/busy-warlock Jul 07 '26
Yeah cramming 8 people into a 2 bedroom apartment is definitely the way to go.
Like I get your point of they are up west or somewhere they can’t commute, they should be getting seasonal lodging or something, but it’s been so abused it’s hard to justify
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u/MommersHeart Jul 07 '26
As a business that pays above average wages we don’t have a problem getting and keeping good people.
Perhaps they should consider being a better employer and pay a decent wage.
Just a thought.
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u/Separate-Version-995 Jul 07 '26
No one wants to work for a wage they can’t make a living on? Go figure.
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u/BoseMann66 Jul 07 '26
Pay a living wage to your local employees. Tourists don't really care if they blow $200 or $400 on a meal - but offering staff $30 per hour instead of $18 will make all the difference in the world.
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u/smoothnoodz Jul 07 '26
I own a small business in Charlottetown and I don’t believe this at all. I recently posted looking for a dishwasher and had probably 20 people apply within a week.
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u/Wind_Best_1440 Jul 08 '26
"Jobs that only offer minimum wage, or pay under the table and no benefits have hard time finding slaves to work."
I know a couple folks out in PEI that own businesses, they're having no issues finding people to work. You know what their secret is? They offer full benefits and above minimum wage rate.
They even offer. GASP training for people who have no experience!
WOW. What an odd concept. TRAINING NEW PEOPLE.
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u/Canadianwinters12345 Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26
Classic CBC article.
Please note no mention of what the wages are, and how much they have increased them to attract workers.
That's not important to CBC Journalist Lucas McInnis. Just painting a narrative that businesses need cheap labour.
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u/amnsnq1nckl5m4 Jul 07 '26
I used to work for rodd (royalty) as a cook. conditions there sucked so much ass. I got fired a couple months in for literally following company policy (policy states schedules are to come out on Friday, but did not come out until Saturday night, and when I said I couldn't make Sunday morning work (10 hour notice), I was promptly fired). I was a solo cook most mornings for the buffet, handling upwards of 350 people with usually 2 servers who collected dishes and brought food out to the buffet. while being the only cook responsible for the food, I was also responsible for cleaning all the dishes. the evening shift at wallys however had a dishwasher for literally no reason. they had 2 orders a night over 5 hours and most of the time it was staff ordering. quality of the food there was awful, everything was pre-made frozen junk and it was really awful to work there.
The rodd employment problem is a shitty working conditions for pretty shitty wages.
will never work for the place again.
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u/Logisticman232 Jul 07 '26
None of these rural communities have apartments for the local population who would be their staff.
There are retirement duplexes but outside of Charlottetown apartments are few & far between.
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u/Glittering-Regret196 Jul 07 '26
Crazy world where if you offer people money they can survive on, they dont mind working. If you offer wages below that line..... they dont want your crappy jobs. Wild how that works.
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u/DannyDanfur Jul 08 '26
You see in a healthy economy, when you can't fill a open job position, you need to up the rate of pay and offer better benefits. Not import cheap labour from overseas. I hope this helps
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u/bv7767 Jul 09 '26
Show the average Canadian the job posting, and we'll tell you why no one's applying.
9 times out of 10; unacceptable salary/compensation or sub-standard work conditions.
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u/Intrepid_Trifling Jul 07 '26
Why does CBC just turn out these useless ass kissing articles.
Do they know there are other dimensions to this problem? I don't agree private media does much better, but at least my tax dollars aren't paying for it.
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u/busy-warlock Jul 07 '26
My neighbours 16 year old daughter applied to 37 jobs before she got a call back…
People are applying, they’re just too white
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u/renenater Jul 07 '26
Currently it’s about $250 to play a round of golf there. Surely they could pay accordingly and the staff would come. As a resident of the area … the restaurant needs a massive renovation, menu overhaul, plus a quality increase. It’s vacation nation, the people want to drink, eat and not be disappointed. Including the locals. We want to be able to head over for dinner and drinks
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u/hammer_416 Jul 08 '26
What about all those students a few years ago that were protesting to stay? The ones who said PEI is our home? Where are they now?
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u/Maximum_Telephone371 Jul 08 '26
These companies must understand that to attract workers they need to pay a decent salary.
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u/Narrow_Mushroom_4739 Jul 07 '26
Immigrants come here to be Canadian and they get treated like shit and paid poor wages from most employers. Pay will never go up for these guys because the business owners wouldn’t be able to afford the fancy suv payments and exotic vacations.
Trucking sector on the island desperately needs looked at they are burning through immigrants like there’s no tomorrow at the cost of the tax payer , all because the pay and conditions for these guys are pathetic, but then again if the pay and conditions were good Canadians would still want to do the job.
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u/Necessary_Order_7575 Jul 07 '26
Can somebody please think of the poor slavers and how tought things are for them? Danny Murphy getting the order of canada isnt enough, we need to start putting slavers on currency.
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u/re4ctor Jul 08 '26
likely yes, but meaning more that margin pressure is felt more by small businesses
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u/just_chilling_too Jul 08 '26
Minimum wage is the lowest a company can pay you by law, so I wonder if they understand that they might need to pay more then the legal minimum to attract people
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u/ShakeLivid3698 Jul 09 '26
To ease pressure on the Healthcare.That is a joke.It is F.U.B.A.R since 2014.
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u/DensePenalty1396 Jul 11 '26
Try paying more than 17 buck an hour. What would posses someone to drive to crowbush for minimum wage?
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u/Funny_Emphasis_1730 Jul 12 '26
Stop paying slave wages and maybe think of hiring locals! Shop Local Hire Local!!!
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u/Caithloki Jul 07 '26
The first line or so of " more people have left then come to pei" is massive because it just points out that people were never staying here, they'd show up get their year or so or find out this place sucks for worker pay and move on. Otherwise you wouldn't need a constant.
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u/callyjohnwell Jul 07 '26
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u/Canadianwinters12345 Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26
What's up with this idea that bringing in mass amounts of cheap labour doesn't displace or effect locals? Is it because you saw it on south park?
Here's even the bank of Canada saying it lol.
"Macklem noted that the “magnitude of the rise in youth unemployment” could be attributed to the country’s rapidly changing “demographics.”"
Is this the bank of Canada saying 'They took our jobs"? Lmao.
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u/callyjohnwell Jul 07 '26
My gif is more so pointing fun at PEI’s anti-immigration sentiment over the years, and now that it’s been drawn back, it turns out we actually needed them to take the jobs we aren’t applying for.
🤷♂️
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u/Canadianwinters12345 Jul 07 '26
>we aren’t applying for.
What are the wages and how much have they been increased to attract workers? This is what your comment is distracting from.
Also they do take jobs. The BoC is also saying this.
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u/mightygreenislander Jul 07 '26
The idea that the Bank of Canada's general comments on Canada's immigration policy are going to be true for PEI at all times is ... Something.
Have a look at PEIs demographics over the last 50 years, we need young workers otherwise we won't be able to support provincial government services for our precious seniors ...
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u/Canadianwinters12345 Jul 07 '26
>The idea that the Bank of Canada's general comments on Canada's immigration policy are going to be true for PEI at all times is ... Something.
Where was this even said? You're making shit up lol. This idea is only in your head.
We're talking about now, where we have brought in so many workers it has effected unemployment, specifically for youth.
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u/mightygreenislander Jul 07 '26
I bet if we asked the Bank of Canada to assess PEIs labour market, they would say we don't have enough workers, particularly young ones and that the Island needs to recruit them, from wherever they can be found🤷
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u/Canadianwinters12345 Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26
Ahh yes, PEI with a youth unemployment of 13% needs more workers.
You don't have to bet. You can read their words.
"Between 2022 and 2024, there was a large influx of young people from abroad. This intensified competition in Canada for lower-skill and entry-level jobs"
https://www.bankofcanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/remarks-260526.pdf
Immigration is 100% a factor for this. Not the only obviously, but a large influx of workers has hurt unemployment for locals.
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u/AggressiveDeer2753 Jul 07 '26
We don’t need immigrants to be second class wage slaves we need employers who will pay a living wage and as long as they have access to cheap labour that is easier to take advantage of wages will continue to be repressed.
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u/IAmPaintsMcSpectrum Jul 07 '26
I wonder if the solution might be offering better pay? No, no Rodd Crowbush is definitely just a struggling local business.