A Rouyn-Noranda dealer fears of losing half of its mechanics due to the new Ottawa rules targeting temporary foreign workers (TET).
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“It’s major. It will harm our operations considerably. It is 50% of my mechanics, ”worries Donald Dion, president of Action Kia, in Rouyn-Noranda.
For this Abitibi-Témiscamingue dealer, the story is not funny.
Among its twenty employees, five are mechanics from abroad, who will not be able to renew their work permit due to the new maximum threshold of 10% TET.
This occurs when, in his corner of the country, recruiting a mechanic is already an obstacle race.
“Those who leave school go to mines for the wage quadruple, even if these are not the same conditions,” explains Mr. Dion.
Spine
Like him, dealers in Abitibi-Témiscamingue and on the North Shore do not have the luxury of doing without their foreign workers who came here in reinforcement.
Technicians in mechanics, mechanics, bodybuilders, painters, these employees have become the spine of a weakened industry.
On Monday, SMEs which repair boats also went up to barricades, adding their voice to those of road carriers, to keep their precious arms.
In mid-July, companies angry with the new Ottawa restrictions also made public their pursuit of almost $ 300 million, revealed The newspaper.
The vice-president of market strategist at Tremcar, Mélanie Dufresne, the CEO of Durabac, Patrick Charbonneau, and the lawyer Frédéric Bérard.
Photo Francis character
“Here to build”
At the KIA action in Rouyn-Noranda, Abdeljalil Bennis, 31, who has been a mechanic for a year, has seen the new immigration rules on social networks.
The concern won him by reading the publications of groups of Moroccan immigrants. He quickly understood that his destiny could change.
Abdeljalil Bennis, a mechanic from Morocco, wishes to stay in Quebec.
Photo provided by Donald Dion
“I came here to build, not to turn around, not to start from scratch,” says the man from Casablanca, nearly 6000 km from here.
Danger roads
At the Corporation of Automobiles in Quebec (CCAQ), we find “dramatic to see rules coming to break lives”.
“If there are people who continue to drive while waiting for an interview or a repair, it can present a risk,” laments his CEO, Ian P. Sam Yue Chi.
Ian P. Samu Yee, PDG du CCCK
Photo Pierre-Paul Poulin
Ambulances, police cars, municipal vehicles … The association urgently requires a moratorium to the federally.
In addition to human dramas and the security aspect, the CCAQ even believes that a greater rarity of labor will inflate the invoice of Quebecers to the garage.
Changes that do not pass
- 30% to 10% of temporary foreign workers allowed within a company;
- 20% increase in the initial hourly wages required for workers considered at low wages;
- Reduction of the period of validity of impact studies on the labor market;
- Reduction to one year of the maximum duration of employment for temporary foreign workers.
