"We must allow labour markets to work through competition yielding higher wages, training, equipment investment, automation, and better business models..." That's not the only way labour markets, or any markets, work. They also work by movements in supply and demand -- if we let them. No one thinks that Alberta should have to rely entirely on Alberta-born labour in the oilfields -- it's considered okay for Newfoundlanders to move there in search of work. But if we took the "just raise wages" argument seriously, employers in Alberta would be forbidden to hire them. So let's stop pretending the "just raise wages" argument is an economic argument. It's just the same old nativism in smarter clothing.