That's an assumption, Gerry. You don't know the circumstances of his employment and neither do I. I do assume it's a legal arrangement or else he won't be able to get past the border.
And, I don't think the term "leech" is appropriate anyway. He's working for his money, he's not coming here to "rob" anyone! You know the arrangment, I'm sure - a fair day's pay for an honest day's work.
By the way, using your analogy, there are lots of Canadian "leeches" down in the U.S., stealing jobs away from Americans. I used to be one of them. And I wouldn't appreciate being called a leech - to my knowledge, I never was...in fact, I made a lot of good friends down there.
My bro's a mechanic at the fort for Finning and he says they have guys from australia working for them, and because of the modified shift schedule they have employees from Australia that fly home every 3 weeks for their days off.
My bro moved to California and commutes to mac also.
Fort Mac is the last place I would go for work and I know allmost all the big wigs there as they mostly came from the shell mine here.
So when cp/fording took the mines here over in a hostile takeover many of the guys went to the Mac and are there still but they commute home for days off.
My bro says he should have went up there years ago,as a heavy duty mechanic he makes close to a hundred grand a year without OT.