Why Doug Ford Wants More Immigrants Even When Thousands Line Up for Tim Hortons Jobs: A Tale of Order Amidst Chaos

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Here’s the thing: Ontario’s labour market is in chaos, but not the kind that makes immediate sense. You have tens of thousands of people—fifty-four thousand at the Canadian National Exhibition alone—scrambling for a few thousand seasonal jobs. You see long lines for Tim Hortons and Aritzia, seemingly proof that there are not enough jobs to go around. And yet, Doug Ford, with a furrowed brow grounded in practical governance, is demanding more immigrants. This raises a stark question: Why bring more order—more people—into what looks like a crowded, chaotic system?

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To answer that, we first have to understand the nature of chaos and order in any complex system. Ontario’s economy desperately needs workers in healthcare, skilled trades, and technology—professions that require more than enthusiasm. They demand credentials, experience, and certification. Here lies the rub: newcomers arrive carrying diplomas, licenses, and skills earned in other nations, yet they face a Byzantine labyrinth of credential recognition. Months, sometimes years, are lost in validation processes—lost time during which many end up in jobs far beneath their qualifications. This represents chaos masquerading as order: a system that is meant to maintain standards but inadvertently wastes human potential.

Simultaneously, youth unemployment is painfully high, creating a surplus of eager hands for simpler roles—those very lines snaking around fast-food counters testify to this. It’s a paradox that highlights a mismatch—an imbalance—between the structure society has in place and the reality of human capability.

Doug Ford’s insistence on more immigration isn’t irrational optimism. It is, fundamentally, an appeal for increased order. He wants to reform immigration so that newcomers’ skills can be effectively integrated, so the bureaucracy stops standing as a gatekeeper of wasted talent, and so Ontario can direct incoming immigrants toward actual labour shortages rather than let them drown in low-wage competition.

The lesson here is profound and simple: order must be restored not by limiting complexity or denying reality, but by architecting a system that recognizes skills, respects qualifications, and aligns opportunity with ability. Only then can we transcend the chaos of long job lines and unmet labour demands.

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