Young adults should work for free, Bank of Canada governor says

[Newsjock]

Source: Canadian Press

Advocates for young workers took Stephen Poloz to task after the Bank of Canada governor recommended that jobless university graduates beef up their resumes by working for free.

Speaking to a House of Commons committee Tuesday, Poloz suggested young Canadians and others struggling to find work should acquire more experience through unpaid internships or volunteering until the country's hobbled job market picks up. He predicted it would improve over the next two years.

... "I bet almost everyone in this room knows at least one family with adult children living in the basement," he said in the prepared speech he delivered Monday. "I'm pretty sure these kids have not taken early retirement."

... Andrew Langille, a Toronto labour lawyer, says he's pleased the Bank of Canada is aware of the labour-market hurdles young Canadians are trying to overcome, but he calls Poloz's comments "incredibly tone deaf." "He shouldn't be saying stuff like that — it's a very dangerous precedent to set," said Langille, who noted the governor's recommendation seemed to encourage people to "subvert" minimum-wage laws to gain experience.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/stephen-poloz-comments-on-unpaid-work-raise-ire-of-youth-groups-1.2824388

[GeorgeGist]

1. Maybe Ted Cruz chose the wrong country.

[Octafish]

2. It's the Future.

Slavery.

[louis-t]

3. And there you have it. Conservative idiocy in all its glory.

"the country's hobbled job market" will never improve as long as conservatives rule.

[Amonester]

4. Sickening HaRpeR's pal will be fired by a Trudeau Liberal gov. next year :)

But for...

"recent graduates like James Tobin, Poloz's remarks show he's out of touch with the reality young would-be workers face every day.

"I don't think it really works because you have to live, right?" said Tobin, who's been trying to land a full-time teaching job since 2012, when he graduated from Bishop's University in Quebec.

"Not everyone is living at their parents' house rent-free ... so how are they going to make ends meet?"

Tobin, who lives in suburban Montreal, had to move to England for a year after finishing his degree because he couldn't find work in Quebec. These days, he routinely wakes up at 5 a.m. in hopes of finding a day's work as a substitute teacher.

unfortunately, he should look for work in other cities like booming Vancouver, Calgary or Toronto, because Quebec's anglophone youngsters are not considering making tons of kids one of their priorities in life: going out to party every night in this "sin city" is not going to make strong families. They'll move to other provinces' towns to do that later...

[Ampersand Unicode]

5. Gee, and I thought Canadians were nice.

(I'm sure most of them are. This guy is just a Canuck tea bagger.)

Nevertheless, I wonder how much money I could make as an intern crack supplier for the Ford campaign?