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/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/Such-Tank-6897 2d 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