Toronto's "Mountains and Seas", a long line of EOD! Fierce competition, record-breaking numbers! Netizen: There are too many India!
Soon, Toronto will usher in the latest CNE Carnival (Canadian National Exhibition, CNE). The event will take place from August 16 to September 2.
And just yesterday, there was a crazy queue at one of the CNE venues!
Thousands of people flocked to Enercare Centre on Wednesday (31 July) just to get a temporary job at the annual CNE carnival, blogTO reported.
This year, CNE's annual job fair set a record of 37,000 candidates who signed up for work, with organizers saying 3,500 to 5,000 candidates attended the in-person job fair Wednesday morning.
Everyone felt that the scene of applicants who wanted to apply for CNE positions was captured on the spot.
A long queue winds its way through the Enercare Centre, with job seekers waiting for their turn to apply for a position. This madness reflects Ontario's current dire employment situation.
Up to 80% of the employees recruited by CNE are young people between the ages of 14 and 29.
This is especially important for people in this age group who have a higher unemployment rate. Between April 2023 and April 2024, Canada's youth unemployment rate (ages 15 to 24) rose to 12.8%.
Youth unemployment in Canada is now at its highest level since 2016, with more people looking for work than during the toughest periods of 2020 and 2021.
In Ontario, the unemployment rate for this age group is even higher, exceeding the national average of 16.5%, ranking high nationally, and Ontario's employment situation is worrying.
Many now attribute this to the large number of international students and new immigrants in Canada in recent years, making it more difficult for locals to find jobs.
This is just the latest example of long queues at job fairs in Toronto and the surrounding areas. Previously, there were also long queues at various other job fairs in GTA, and some netizens complained that most of the queues were Indian.
On Feb. 22 this year, there was a queue of thousands of people outside Pearson Airport, and only 700 positions were offered at the job fair.
At a security job fair in Mississauga last year, the crowd of applicants lined up from the office to the parking lot and then out of the street, and even the camera couldn't even shoot the back of the line.
And such as McDonald's, Tim Hortons, chain retail stores and other places to recruit
Outside applicants lined up in long queues without exception.
Shopping malls, LCBOs, and retail businesses such as Fortinos and Bath & Body Works are all hiring frenzied.
Under the video, netizens expressed their opinions. The same skin color of a large number of job seekers has also sparked controversy.
I think even the interviewer is wondering why the first interview can't be conducted via Zoom.
My first job was as a teenager when I was picking up trash at the National Exhibition of Canada (CNE). This job has taught me a lot in the workplace. There weren't many people at the time. But now...
They think it's a team that gives out free food.
It's a typical CNE job seeker.
The only surprise is that it's August now, and this job should be full.
In the 60s, I was in this CNE job queue.
This is what happens when you let unqualified immigrants and international students far beyond what is socially and economically affordable enter Canada, open the door to refugees, and remove the visit visa requirement for South America, especially when many Canada are unemployed! It's insane!
It's too hard for 16-20-year-olds to find a summer job right now.
Isn't there a limit on the number of working hours for international students?
Where did the "whites" in Canada go?
Stop the mass recruitment of immigrants, let these poor people recognize the reality and give up the false Canada dream!
Too many Indians are being "imported" by Canada.
I guess I'm going to boycott this year's CNE. It's terrible.
I'm a recruiter, and job fairs are often desperate places. You'll almost never find good candidates there. Those places are usually crowded with people on visitor visas, desperately seeking closed work permits, unskilled immigrants who have just arrived, and some very desperate Canada.
What do you think?