Canada

Agree. Agriculture is not open rocket surgery. It doesn't take long to train.

Not saying that it's easy, as it's super labour intensive.

The challenge with agriculture is the limited timeframe, which does rather gel well with a temporary work crew that follows the harvest north and returns to their home country afterwards. However, they should always be paid appropriately.

I worked at an office job for a big, well known company in Brampton, "top blah blah employers" sort of thing. Their entire IT department was outsourced to a company that entirely takes TFW money

About half of temporary foreign workers in Canada are high skilled workers. These are programs employers use to pay lower wages by having leverage over their workers. They exploit international students who graduate and then get these jobs on TFW visas in place of Canadian residents. Employers gain their leverage by exploiting the fact that if a TFW gets fired they lose their right to stay in the country.

As a counterpoint I offer this article:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/18/how-spains-radically-different-approach-to-migration-helped-its-economy-soar

Immigrants taking jobs is only one half of the equation. They also need food, shelter, transportation, entertainment, etc and provide the demand that is the driver of economic growth. The reason people aren't feeling that is because, just the same as us, the vast majority of the value created by immigrants is going to the top 0.1%. Canada's best bet for the future would be increasing immigration even further than under Trudeau combined with redistributive economic policy and a public housing authority that doesn't leave it to the whims of the private market to build enough housing for everyone. Canada has plenty of empty land, we should be building entire new cities.

The problem is most of the immigrants target one city to live in, and that city has been poorly managed on infrastructure for 50 years.

Where'd you go?