Yeah that's not true. There's an entire generation of young Canadians that were entirely locked out of the same start I had in the work force. I worked at Cineplex and liquor stores, and finally a vape shop during school. That work experience helped me get a job in my industry compared to having no work history at all but an education.

For the past 10 years it's been really bad with the foreign slave program in Canada. Corporations basically own these temporary foreign workers as modern day slaves... If you speak out or complain you get sent home. If you try to change jobs they cancel your permit before you have a chance and you get sent home. You take what they give you or you get sent home.

They live 10 to a room, and are brought to work in vans or busses. Truly horrible living conditions in my opinion. And they're working jobs that Canadians do want to do (not universally, but retail/service jobs are typically the first foray a 16-18 year old has into working) but can't get. I'm not being hyperbolic when I say it's made an entire generation of kids less employable because they didn't have a job earlier. It's harder to compete with older workers who had that opportunity and also have relevant work experience.

Edit: I should clarify I'm not going "immigrants took my job!" I'm pointing out that capitalists lobbied my government for a defacto slavery program, and my government complied. Now millions of kids have less work experience, will earn less than older peers who managed to pad their resume with retail/service jobs, and those young kids will earn less over their entire life because they're permanently behind compared to older peers.

The effects from this compounds and I'm not sure it ever fully recovers. Young kids end up needing to take more and more desperate shitty jobs just to do anything at all, with the hopes of eventually doing more in their actual profession. Compared to a GenX or millenial with a decade or more of relevant work experience, Gen Z and alpha are at a permanent disadvantage now and into the future.