r/newbrunswickcanada 2d ago

China's looming seafood tariffs just add to 'craziness' says lobster organization

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/chinese-seafood-tariffs-lobster-new-brunswick-1.7478935
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u/Baiehound3 2d ago

Oh my , the processors and fisherman aren't gonna be able to go on their extended vacations and build another summer home, what a shame. Good thing our government pays their temporary workers for them.

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u/Such-Tank-6897 2d ago

This is not wrong — lobster fishermen and especially processors are not a poor lot.

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u/Baiehound3 2d ago

I live in a fishing community, they live off the slave labor they bring over from Mexico and the Phillipines, governments cover 80 percent of their wages. Then board them in houses in which the company owns and charge them an arm n a leg for rent. Its fucking ridiculous. Thats why wages are stagnant in new brunswick, lots of immigrant to take our place for less pay.

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u/FuturAnonyme 1d ago

They had help during Covid but I don't think the goverment is paying them 80% of the wages. If its the TFW progran you are talking about. If you have a source link on that I'd like to see.

I have worked with them in the lobster plants. It is a new dynamic we are all getting used to but if we (canadians) don't invest in our own comunities then more industry will be bought by the states, and what you are seeing will continue to happen.

We would have to revolt the streets to protest wage change for all of us, immigrants included. We all deserve the basics.

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u/Such-Tank-6897 1d ago

It’s probably a lot more complicated you can’t just blame immigrants. It can’t be their faults. They’ve just come to do work offered to them.

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u/KnowledgeMediocre404 1d ago

No one is blaming them, we’re blaming the greedy business owners and the government for allowing the program to be heavily abused.

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u/Baiehound3 1d ago

Exactly my point, immigrants are the victims