Schools desperate to prove the practical applications of their degrees are funnelling
unpaid labourers to employers: the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel in Vancouver was justifiably ridiculed when it advertised for four unpaid busboy «internships,» but the jobs were defended by Vancouver Community College, who said «even dishwashing» is an education.
Unpaid internships depress wages by creating a pool of workers willing to work for free — and for no benefits, making them akin to the
labourers brought to Canada under the much - maligned temporary foreign worker program.