It has become a issue of who will blink first. As of today, things are worse than they were in the first week of June when it all started. Biggest losers of in all this are Canadian Public because of huge loss of revenue from tourism, lost work because of unavailability of temporary workers and impact on the choices Students make this time of the year.
From GDP perspective, as per few estimates, Canada is loosing $20 million/week only in tourism. Losses accounting from Students and Workers can't be quantified very easily. This is obviously a bad business equation if we see only from this perspective. To save approx. $4.5 M/ year by not giving increment to Foreign Service Officer, government is actually loosing almost 4 times of it in a single week.
But if we see from the administration perspective, it can't be an easy decision for government to accept all the demands of PAFSO members because it may end up in surge in the similar demands from other public service officers.
PAFSO has chosen a time when historically it gets highest number of Visa applications and which is not helping the Visa applicants either.
I hope both parties are able to come to the table and come up with a workable solution as soon as possible. I hope they would think about those students who have applied in Canadian Universities and might end up loosing an year in case they don't get Visa on time. I hope Agriculture world and corporate world is able to put some amount of pressure on both the parties to get this resolve quickly and not drag it further.
