swirlie · 31-35
You have missed the point behind the American employee they needed to use as your replacement.
None of what you experienced has anything to do with wages, first of all.
What this has to do with is the fact that you work for an American company that has one of it's business operations located in Canada. Before you quit your job, you were a Canadian living in Canada but working for an American-owned company. Let's be clear, that's where you're coming from here.
All American companies have a mandate from Trump to hire only American Nationals, not imported immigrants even inside the borders of the USA. That is America's new direction in it's evolution as a developing Nation, to turn inward and become an isolationist, protectionist country unto ITSELF.
When Trump first came into power as President back in 2016, one of the first things he mandated was a return of corporate America BACK to the United States to secure American jobs at the expense of the workers laid off in whatever country those American companies pulled out from, at Trump's Authoritarian command.
Where this first hit Canada was in Leamington Ontario, about a 30 minute drive from the Windsor/Detroit border crossing on the north shore of Lake Erie.
Heinz who make ketchup, are an American-owned company with it's Head Office in the USA. Heinz had been in business in Ontario Canada for over 80 years making ketchup and mustard and relish using Canadian-grown vegetables and using Canadian employees, most who'd been employed by Heinz for over 40 years as of 2016.
When Heinz pulled out of Canada in response to America's new King thrashing his golden gauntlet against his oval office oak desk, Heinz laid off every Canadian employee, walked away from the factory that was built 80 years ago with Canadian government funds, then set up shop right across the lake on the American side where Heinz then hired Americans to do the same factory jobs Canadians had been doing for the previous 80 years in Canada, but were working on behalf of American-owned Heinz.
Stellantis Automotive who make the American-owned Chrysler who make the Jeep and Ram Truck, had a production factory in Canada which recently closed for alleged retooling, who then laid off all Canadian assembly line workers during the transition, but recently announced that the Jeep and Ram Truck would now be manufactured south of the border, somewhere in the USA.
Stellantis is a Dutch-owned conglomerate who received orders from Grand Master Trump to either transfer those Canadian automotive jobs to the USA, or they wouldn't be able sell Jeeps and trucks in the US market. Stellantis pulled their Chrysler division out of Canada and returned those jobs to the USA on Trump's command and those Canadian employees are still unemployed.
To the heart of your post, the only reason that an American would be solicited to take your place after you quit your job was because the company you worked for would be under the same mandate to use AMERICAN employees, not Canadian employees.
The problem is, Americans are not exactly welcome in Canada right now and no American in his right mind would actually pull up stakes and move to Canada even in good weather, which is why they had to offer your replacement more than double the wages you were making as your replacement.
None of what you experienced has anything to do with wages, first of all.
What this has to do with is the fact that you work for an American company that has one of it's business operations located in Canada. Before you quit your job, you were a Canadian living in Canada but working for an American-owned company. Let's be clear, that's where you're coming from here.
All American companies have a mandate from Trump to hire only American Nationals, not imported immigrants even inside the borders of the USA. That is America's new direction in it's evolution as a developing Nation, to turn inward and become an isolationist, protectionist country unto ITSELF.
When Trump first came into power as President back in 2016, one of the first things he mandated was a return of corporate America BACK to the United States to secure American jobs at the expense of the workers laid off in whatever country those American companies pulled out from, at Trump's Authoritarian command.
Where this first hit Canada was in Leamington Ontario, about a 30 minute drive from the Windsor/Detroit border crossing on the north shore of Lake Erie.
Heinz who make ketchup, are an American-owned company with it's Head Office in the USA. Heinz had been in business in Ontario Canada for over 80 years making ketchup and mustard and relish using Canadian-grown vegetables and using Canadian employees, most who'd been employed by Heinz for over 40 years as of 2016.
When Heinz pulled out of Canada in response to America's new King thrashing his golden gauntlet against his oval office oak desk, Heinz laid off every Canadian employee, walked away from the factory that was built 80 years ago with Canadian government funds, then set up shop right across the lake on the American side where Heinz then hired Americans to do the same factory jobs Canadians had been doing for the previous 80 years in Canada, but were working on behalf of American-owned Heinz.
Stellantis Automotive who make the American-owned Chrysler who make the Jeep and Ram Truck, had a production factory in Canada which recently closed for alleged retooling, who then laid off all Canadian assembly line workers during the transition, but recently announced that the Jeep and Ram Truck would now be manufactured south of the border, somewhere in the USA.
Stellantis is a Dutch-owned conglomerate who received orders from Grand Master Trump to either transfer those Canadian automotive jobs to the USA, or they wouldn't be able sell Jeeps and trucks in the US market. Stellantis pulled their Chrysler division out of Canada and returned those jobs to the USA on Trump's command and those Canadian employees are still unemployed.
To the heart of your post, the only reason that an American would be solicited to take your place after you quit your job was because the company you worked for would be under the same mandate to use AMERICAN employees, not Canadian employees.
The problem is, Americans are not exactly welcome in Canada right now and no American in his right mind would actually pull up stakes and move to Canada even in good weather, which is why they had to offer your replacement more than double the wages you were making as your replacement.
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JackDaniels · 46-50, M
@swirlie you can still like our nuts. 😂
@oldguy73 Yes, but long lines to get in, probably for that very reason.
CloudAngel80 · 41-45, F
Not ALL Americans get high wages..the minimum is 15 dollars per hr, i work less than that because i cant find something in my area worth more, and to pick up a second job in my area id only get 6 hrs a sleep !
Monalisasmith86 · 41-45, F
Because you’s pay too much taxes for free healthcare even people on dsp pay taxes in Canada I looked it up
SomeMichGuy · M
Agreed.
Do they have minimum wage / salary standards?
Do they have minimum wage / salary standards?
@ArishMell American. The minimum wage in Canada is $17.85/hr. That is approximately $37,128 per year based on 260 weekdays/year.
Government takes a chunk of that, plus medical and dental payments. You are not left with much. Around $1600/month.
Rent here is expensive, food costs are going nuts. Used to be able to buy 4 steaks for $20 or $25, now its $60.
You have to be creative to afford to buy a house let alone saving up for a down payment. Mortgage payments would be impossible at that wage level.
Government takes a chunk of that, plus medical and dental payments. You are not left with much. Around $1600/month.
Rent here is expensive, food costs are going nuts. Used to be able to buy 4 steaks for $20 or $25, now its $60.
You have to be creative to afford to buy a house let alone saving up for a down payment. Mortgage payments would be impossible at that wage level.
justanothername · 51-55, M
@JamesBugman Come down to New Zealand and find out what expensive cost of living looks like. You will be GLAD to get back to Canada.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@JamesBugman I was lucky never to be on the National Living Wage or whatever they call it now, but it was introduced in the UK to try to prevent employers getting away with excessively low wages.
We are taxed on income by Income Tax itself, plus what is a bit misleadingly called the "National Insurance". That is a tax originally devised to support the National Health Service, but not an insurance or savings policy at all.
However, employees are exempt below certain income levels. I don't know the actual figures.
Most medical treatment here is free but there are exceptions. The dentists are all private businesses but if you are lucky enough to be one of their NHS patients you pay considerably less than the private patients' fees. Similarly with opticians. The specialists' fees are made up by the State... i.e. from taxes generally!
We also pay for prescription medicines until age 60 but at a flat rate that must be below the real cost, and that goes to the NHS not the pharmacist. They are reimbursed somehow but I don't know how. (Since most people now work beyond 60, I cannot understand why not pay until State Pension age; with exceptions for those on certain welfare benefits.)
Housing is very expensive here, though that does vary considerably around the country depending on the attractiveness of the area and the supply of work etc. A big problem in some areas is the buying of houses as second-homes, or for using as holiday-lets and Air B-&-B accommodation. This raises the areas' general house prices by scarcity and prices them out of local reach. Rents are steep and if you have to rent you are unlikely to afford to save for a house deposit.
Motoring is costly too - and not everyone lives within easy reach of frequent public transport that suits all their needs.
We are taxed on income by Income Tax itself, plus what is a bit misleadingly called the "National Insurance". That is a tax originally devised to support the National Health Service, but not an insurance or savings policy at all.
However, employees are exempt below certain income levels. I don't know the actual figures.
Most medical treatment here is free but there are exceptions. The dentists are all private businesses but if you are lucky enough to be one of their NHS patients you pay considerably less than the private patients' fees. Similarly with opticians. The specialists' fees are made up by the State... i.e. from taxes generally!
We also pay for prescription medicines until age 60 but at a flat rate that must be below the real cost, and that goes to the NHS not the pharmacist. They are reimbursed somehow but I don't know how. (Since most people now work beyond 60, I cannot understand why not pay until State Pension age; with exceptions for those on certain welfare benefits.)
Housing is very expensive here, though that does vary considerably around the country depending on the attractiveness of the area and the supply of work etc. A big problem in some areas is the buying of houses as second-homes, or for using as holiday-lets and Air B-&-B accommodation. This raises the areas' general house prices by scarcity and prices them out of local reach. Rents are steep and if you have to rent you are unlikely to afford to save for a house deposit.
Motoring is costly too - and not everyone lives within easy reach of frequent public transport that suits all their needs.