China has been in the news a lot lately and much talked about here as well. It is bad enough to have lost jobs by off shoring but to loose them in your own country by "reverse off shoring" ie importing labour from China is a lot harder to swallow. This is the situation as reported by CTV News Coal mine looked for Chinese workers at lower pay, union tells court | CTV News .

I believe most countries will allow temporary foreign workers in if there are no qualified citizens of that country to fill the positions. On the face of it that is fair enough. If the CTV report is true, I see two things that upset me. The first is that the company set as part of it's hiring requirements that the applicants speak Mandarin, up to 300 of them. I know we are a diverse country but it just might be impossible to find 300 Mandarin speaking Canadian citizens with the specific set of job skills required by the company. That alone might make it possible to say there are not enough Canadian citizens qualified on that point alone. The second point is that they will be working for $10.00 to $17.00 @ hour less than workers at near by mines are making, if the CTV report is true.

I don't care what you think of unions but I hope they win their court case.

Bob