The B.C. Liberals’ latest idea is Welfare Air: a plan whereby they train welfare recipients and fly them to the remote areas of the province to work in lucrative heavy industry jobs. This is the greatest idea B.C. has had since rounding up the Japanese into concentration camps. I honestly couldn’t decide what was the most apt metaphor for this idea: concentration camps, forced labour camps, or gulags? I’m going with Gulags, because those typically made prisoners work hard labour in frozen, underdeveloped areas like Siberia. The jobs they’re looking to fill are in areas covered with snow for more than half the year, and are severely lacking in new housing. Even hotels and camp sites are unavailable. The only lucrative jobs are with gas, oil, forestry, or mining, which are all incredibly dangerous and requires workers to away from their families for weeks at a time. Applying to these jobs means you’ll be cold, homeless and risking death. In short: the Liberals are trying to kill our welfare recipients.
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