Foreign students allege abuse of P.E.I. business immigration system
CHARLOTTETOWN — The 24-year-old Chinese man sits down at a living room table in Charlottetown, and begins to fill a page of legal-sized paper with diagrams and notes.
He is explaining life as an employee at two businesses set up under P.E.I.’s controversial business immigration system.
First, there was the trading company that required he pay high-priced rent of $1,500 for a small apartment belonging to the firm’s owner, largely using up his $2,000 salary, he says, drawing arrows back and forth on the page.
He shows each bank transaction for the payments on his smart phone.