Well, as the article says, Brooks has had issues attracting people to live and work there for decades. The part the article left out is that when JBS bought Lakeside, they refused to raise wages, and locals quit working there. Lots of folks from Medicine Hat and Redcliff used to be bussed there and home every day to make a living wage, but when it stopped being a living wage, they stopped going. So JBS went and whined to the government and started to bring in immigrants. The government allowed it to "keep food costs low." JBS is, of course, not a Canadian company, and in 2006 had revenue of 2B, they now have revenue of 86B and are making double-digit billion-dollar profits.