u/Subject-Landscape451

Saskatchewan companies charging foreign workers to work in their establishment? Say it ain't so.

So the tickets to Canadian citizenship are:

1. Pay $40,000 to a strip-mall college, work full-time in a low-wage job, and earn a PGWP to work in a low-wage job.  Stay until you have PR.

Or...

2. Pay $40,000 to a restaurant for an LMIA job, make $38/hr and pay the boss back $20/hr in cash effectively making it a low wage job.  Stay until you have PR.

Since the PGWP have been drying up, go to option #2.

(Note: Some are even doing #1 AND followed by #2 after #1 doesn't work out.)

Ontario News

I suppose that when they show up to the office looking for handouts they will be easy to catch.

Conestoga's 25/26 Financial Statement

From 2025 to 2026 Conestoga College has become a financial disaster:

• Assets 2025 = $617 million; Assets 2026 = $329 million (down $288 mil)
• Revenues 2025 = $799 million; Revenues 2026 = $444 million (down $355 mil)
• Surplus 2025 = $122 million; Deficit 2026 = -$33 million (down $155 mil)

In September 2023, the former president John Tibbits proudly declared, "It won't be long, we'll be a $1-billion corporation," in a speech defending the college's international student growth strategy. He was presented with the Kitchener-Waterloo Citizen of the Year award the same year.

https://preview.redd.it/9g477a77uogh1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=f75b3943252f5fe451c6dc79c82a286473ed0ebc

In December 2024 Tibbits informed staff that the college was in "solid shape".

In 2025 they axed approximately 2,750 jobs. (This must be the largest, or one of the largest, job loss events in the region's history.)

In January 2026 he retired and it was later revealed that he was granted $3.8 million as a retirement bonus. This past May the college was taken over by the province due to "serious financial mismanagement".

(Oh, how the mighty have fallen. You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.)

The college needs to immediately divest itself from Tibbits' vanity projects such as the new corporate offices on King Street, the 'research lab' in Galt, and the recent real estate acquisitions. Then, seriously thin the ranks of the bloated executive management team (e.g., 40 Directors!).

It will take a generation to rebuild the trust in the community for this once respected institution.

Applyboard has launched a new 'Trust Centre' with the goal of lowering the rate of student visa rejections. Apparently the majority of these rejections were due to financial documentation irregularities.

>"The government aims to admit a total of 60,000 TFWP work permit holders over the course of 2026.

>This year’s admissions target for permits issued through the International Mobility Program (IMP) stands at 170,000."

These tweaks to the wage targets are completely meaningless.

The real issue is this combined 'target' of international workers of 230,000!

• What is the target for 2027?
• Is the target a minimum or a maximum?
• Why is there even a target?

When the unemployment rate drops below 6% in a region the feds open the floodgates for low-wage LMIA applications.

These communities are opening up this Fall:

• Halifax, Nova Scotia
• Saint John, New Brunswick
• Fredericton, New Brunswick
• Drummondville, Quebec
• Kingston, Ontario
• St. Catharines-Niagara, Ontario
• Winnipeg, Manitoba
• Regina, Saskatchewan

There are currently 96 postings on Canada's Job Bank for LMIA truck drivers in Ontario, all at over $36/hr. Concerns about how these new drivers will be able to handle these rigs in Canada are a major concern.

Now, Quebec no longer accepts the Ontario truck driver training on face value as the 'fly-by-night' career college industry delivering the basic training program (mandatory entry-level training -MELT) have flourished.

On top of this, cases of widespread bribery and forged documentation amongst Ontario driving examiners have been uncovered where this task has been outsourced to a private company. Even the provincial auditor general has been on this case for several years.

Ontario's Minister of Transportation, the Hon. Prabmeet Singh Sarkaria (the Member of Provincial Parliament for Brampton South) has expressed concern.

CBC Marketplace did a good investigation into this last year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVSs8dSbS-Y

UPDATE:

From Saturday near Cambridge ON...carnage on the 401...

“A transport truck collided into the back of slowing or stopped traffic resulting in approximately 16 people with injuries sent to hospital. One of the injured, a driver of a passenger vehicle was taken to hospital with critical injuries, (where) he was later pronounced deceased in hospital,”

https://www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/article/one-person-dead-following-highway-401-crash-in-cambridge-ont/

The last president was making over $600k annually and received over $3-million as a retirement bonus after turning this once decent college into a dumpster fire. He was enabled by a compliant Board of Govenors, provincal and federal governments who looked the other way, and a large team of overpaid sycophants in the management ranks.

How hard could it be?

Clown College Seeking CEO

Wage: $300/hr

Retirement bonus: $3,000,000

Job Requirements:

• Lead a very large team of overpaid sycophants in the off-campus corporate offices
• Supervise the self serving Board of Govenors (even though they are supposed to supervise you)
• Destroy the hopes and dreams of many lives, both foreign and domestic
• Rule the teachers and staff with intimidation and lay them off on a whim
• Take important services away from students
• Embroil the college in unnecessary lawsuits from other college presidents after using despicable language in public
• Be ready, willing, and able to destroy your community for a quick profit
• Be willing to travel the world on expensive junkets
• Oversee a massive and uncontrolled expansion and real estate acquisitions

The last recourse in immigration cases is an appeal to Federal Court, a system that is now completely overwhelmed. According to the Charter all persons (not just citizens) have the right to this system.

Interestingly, the same reporter published a story last week stating:

>"I have been approached with schemes that promised additional CRS points through credentials I never earned, including offers to obtain trade certifications in fields such as plumbing or electrical work, despite having no background in either profession."

https://www.cambridgetimes.ca/news/waterloo-region/canada-immigration-work-permit/article_10ae1877-ea26-5c34-b385-a4fe73454604.html

In today's story (link from image above) Mr. Singh claims to be (or have studied):

• a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering (not a skilled trade)
• a construction management diploma from CONestoga College, (not a skilled trade and from a notorious degree mill )
• a welding machine operator (not a skilled trade...there is a welding trade with a Red Seal but a machine operator is not even close)
• MBA program at International Business University in Toronto (not a skilled trade and this is some online degree-mill out of Toronto charging $40,000).

According to the Ontario website "the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP) gives foreign nationals with Ontario work experience in eligible skilled trades the opportunity to apply to permanently live and work in Ontario."

This is a pretty poor example of "we need people from overseas to alleviate out skilled trade 'shortage'".

https://www.reddit.com/r/TimHortons/s/uAjwrjrMp5.

So is this another way that Timmy's can tilt the table in favour of their work permit 'students'?