God this guy IS just stupid. Canadians - and every other nationality - don't get jobs in Asia or the Middle East because of "marketing". We (I am one over "here") get the jobs because there are not nearly enough locals - by a huge margin - to do the work, and we have the required experience. Period. The locals do not want us, we are hired guns and will be gone the day they can train/produce enough of their own citizens to do the flying. We are not here because Emirates/Etihad/Cathay/etc can save money by using us temporarily aka Scumwing et al. Expats are needed due to sheer lack of in-country pilots. Get it?In the end, I think we should market ourselves better. Kinda like we Canadian pilots go work as expats in the Sandbox or Far East. We marketed ourselves better than locals did over there. We took the right jobs, flew the right aircraft, and answered the questions correctly in the interview.
This is categorically not the case in Canada. It is fundamentally, completely, wholly, different in every way. It is not "kinda like", whatsoever.
Trying to compare the two is the most weak-minded argument put forward. There are economic arguments for TFW's, to be sure. It certainly benefits the corporations using them. But Canadian citizens or the Canadian government? No. Not the Canadian pilots who are displaced, nor the Canadian government (aka the taxpayers) paying the EI benefits of the qualified, unemployed Canadian pilots and AND not receiving any tax revenue from the foreign nationals. It's pretty much a lose-lose-lose proposition, EXCEPT for the companies doing it.
Just stop defending it already under the nonsensical "Globalization is unstoppable" mantra.
And that goes for rotary, fixed, military, fire patrol, aerial photography, and all of the other complete and utter bs that goes on. The industry has become a sewer.
