SINGAPOREANS face competition from foreigners in every aspect of their lives, even in the unlikeliest job - picking cardboard boxes for a living.
Dr John Tan, leader of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) team contesting Sembawang GRC, raised this at a SDP rally in Woodlands Stadium on Saturday night.
He told the crowd that a Marsiling resident who lost his job a year ago, had to turn to collecting and selling carton boxes to make ends meet. But he faced competition - from the mother of a China worker who also started picking up carton boxes in his neighbourhood.
'Even that we are faced with competition. That is really pathetic. What has our country come to?' asked Dr Tan.
The influx of foreign workers and the concern over the competition Singaporeans face was a main theme that seized many of the SDP candidates at the three-hour rally.
The party's candidate for Holland-Bukit Timah GRC Tan Jee Say added that the party would push for jobs for young Singaporeans in the creative industries, drawing on his proposal in a 46-page paper published earlier this year on transforming Singapore's economy.
The SDP also unveiled a 'People's Plan' for Sembawang GRC , which includes converting Housing Board void decks into polyclinics and providing cheaper feeder bus services.
Dr John Tan, leader of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) team contesting Sembawang GRC, raised this at a SDP rally in Woodlands Stadium on Saturday night.
He told the crowd that a Marsiling resident who lost his job a year ago, had to turn to collecting and selling carton boxes to make ends meet. But he faced competition - from the mother of a China worker who also started picking up carton boxes in his neighbourhood.
'Even that we are faced with competition. That is really pathetic. What has our country come to?' asked Dr Tan.
The influx of foreign workers and the concern over the competition Singaporeans face was a main theme that seized many of the SDP candidates at the three-hour rally.
The party's candidate for Holland-Bukit Timah GRC Tan Jee Say added that the party would push for jobs for young Singaporeans in the creative industries, drawing on his proposal in a 46-page paper published earlier this year on transforming Singapore's economy.
The SDP also unveiled a 'People's Plan' for Sembawang GRC , which includes converting Housing Board void decks into polyclinics and providing cheaper feeder bus services.
