You’re Fired, White Boy

I worked at Dairy Queen.
In January 2026 hot grease splashed into my eye on shift. There was no eyewash station. Not one. Something the law actually requires. I was off for about a month on WCB. When I came back I lasted maybe two weeks before they fired me. Before the injury there were zero complaints. After I returned they found a reason. Just like that.
The new owner is Indian. When he took over he cleaned house. Fired locals. Brought in his own people. One woman who had worked there for 30 years got the same treatment. Loyalty meant nothing. Experience meant nothing. Being Canadian meant nothing.
I still don’t have full vision in that eye. Never got it back. And the place that caused it treated me like I was disposable the second I became inconvenient.This picture hits differently when you’ve lived it. A young Canadian standing there while the whole counter is stacked with the same crowd that replaced the people who used to work there. This is the pattern. Locals get pushed out. The new group looks after its own. And the rest of us are supposed to stay quiet and keep buying the Blizzards.
I’m done. Enough is enough. If a business treats Canadians like second-class labour in their own country, they don’t deserve our money. Boycott the ones that do this. Support the ones that still hire and respect the people who actually built these communities.We are not the help. This is our country.Canada First.Enough is enough
Justin Harvey, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia