…And It’s Probably Not Your Fault

This year, The Canadian National Exhibition posted 5,000 seasonal positions for their annual festival. They received over 50,000 applications. That means roughly 10% of the people who applied actually got hired. 

The reality now is that people looking for work are more likely to receive a rejection letter or get ghosted instead of actually receiving a job interview or an actual job.  

Right now, people in Ontario are applying for an average of 200-500 jobs before they receive an offer. While your Google Docs account is getting filled with copies of your different cover letters, Doug Ford has been slashing university and college programs, public services, and OSAP, making it harder to get the training you need to find the job you want. On top of that, hundreds of companies are now replacing workers with AI under the guise that they can’t afford to pay people, meanwhile most people holding c-suite jobs are able to afford multiple properties. 

If you’re wondering why a blog about the criminal justice system is making a post about how hard it is to find a job, it’s because Doug Ford’s decision to make finding a job harder is a direct result of him trying to recruit more police officers in Ontario. While he’s criminalizing homelessness and addiction and cutting public health programs, he is slowly turning Ontario into The United States, where ICE officers are disappearing innocent people right before our eyes. 

Doug Ford is making it so that we have no other option than to become police officers, and he’s not even trying to hide it.

We have a long way to go before Doug Ford can be replaced in the next provincial election, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing we can do. Protesting, signing petitions and sending emails to Doug Ford and your local representative is a great way to let your premiere know you won’t stand for what he is doing. He shouldn’t be allowed to drive people into poverty while making it illegal to be homeless. We should not have to choose between living in poverty and being a police officer. Every single time someone does something, we get one step closer to an actual solution.

Many of us are struggling right now. You’re not alone. While the job search can be incredibly disheartening, it is so important that we don’t give up this fight.

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