[andyt]

Brenda Brenda:

How much taxes do you actually pay when you work for $8/hr, - $325/mo for room and board?

Actually I don't think they are paid even $8/hr. They are paid a monthly salary, about $1000 a month or so, and are expected to work long hours for that - way more than 40 a week. If they were paid by the hour, they'd be cleaning up with all the overtime they would get. But I believe room and board is usually included, ie not charged for.

[andyt]

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

CommanderSock CommanderSock:

$1:

Yep. They seem the most desirable immigrants to me. We get very few, so we could certainly take some more - at a reduction of other groups, in fact an over all reduction of immigration. If we got a flood of Japanese, I'd probably feel differently.

Why, somehow you feel the Japanese will make your life better?

If they stayed, yes I do. However, chances are that most of any we might get would arrive as refugees with the intention of returning to Japan at some point anyway.

The way Japan has been going, and with Canada doing so well (for now), I wouldn't be surprised if many would choose to stay.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Brenda Brenda:

How much taxes do you actually pay when you work for $8/hr, - $325/mo for room and board?

I don't know how much now, but 10 years ago it resulted in a paycheque of $290-300/wk

[Brenda]

andyt andyt:

Brenda Brenda:

How much taxes do you actually pay when you work for $8/hr, - $325/mo for room and board?

Actually I don't think they are paid even $8/hr. They are paid a monthly salary, about $1000 a month or so, and are expected to work long hours for that - way more than 40 a week. If they were paid by the hour, they'd be cleaning up with all the overtime they would get. But I believe room and board is usually included, ie not charged for.

Just one of the many many many on JobBank...
http://www.jobbank.gc.ca/detail-eng.asp ... Student=No

It's either that, or $1400 (gross) and having to put up with having taken out the same $325/mo for room and board.

[Bacardi4206]

Brenda Brenda:

How much taxes do you actually pay when you work for $8/hr, - $325/mo for room and board?

A lot more than those who collect our tax's instead atleast.

[CommanderSock]

Most people on welfare are Canadians who were born here.

I'm not worried about immigrants on welfare, but more on those trailer dwelling folks in the suburbs of Charlottetown, Sault Ste Marie, Halifax, Thunder Bay, and a slew of other places where there is little hope of upwards mobility and a stable income stream.

[andyt]

CommanderSock CommanderSock:

Most people on welfare are Canadians who were born here.

I'm not worried about immigrants on welfare, but more on those trailer dwelling folks in the suburbs of Charlottetown, Sault Ste Marie, Halifax, Thunder Bay, and a slew of other places where there is little hope of upwards mobility and a stable income stream.

If you're talking to me - that 18 billion isn't about welfare. It's about low income people paying a lot less in taxes than they take out of the systems in total government services - medicare, schools, etc etc. We already have enough people like that, we don't need to import more to keep wages down so better off people can get cheap services.

[Bacardi4206]

CommanderSock CommanderSock:

Most people on welfare are Canadians who were born here.

I'm not worried about immigrants on welfare, but more on those trailer dwelling folks in the suburbs of Charlottetown, Sault Ste Marie, Halifax, Thunder Bay, and a slew of other places where there is little hope of upwards mobility and a stable income stream.

Those people you can't really do anything about, what you can do however is stop bringing in more like them.

[PostFactum]

And how about climate, they feel ok?

[PostFactum]

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

CommanderSock CommanderSock:

$1:

Yep. They seem the most desirable immigrants to me. We get very few, so we could certainly take some more - at a reduction of other groups, in fact an over all reduction of immigration. If we got a flood of Japanese, I'd probably feel differently.

Why, somehow you feel the Japanese will make your life better?

If they stayed, yes I do. However, chances are that most of any we might get would arrive as refugees with the intention of returning to Japan at some point anyway.

Refugees from Japan to Canada ??? Man you have to write jokes. That's like to move from city (where you lived whole your life) to village.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Ummm PF? check out the link. http://www.canadaka.net/link.php?id=68056