To summarize, the difference between a foreign seafarer and a Canadian seafarer is about $14 an hour. That's the only difference. There's no difference in the work they do, other than the regulations in Canada, of course.
We have our social systems. We have our social nets. We have a certain level of living, and that's what the wages are based on. A Canadian seafarer would make $26 an hour, and a foreign seafarer doing exactly the same job on exactly the same ship would make about two dollars an hour.