Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program is fuelling exploitation while Canadians face unemployment. Here is why change is overdue and what we can do.
Every month we in Canada have half a million unfilled job openings. Do not make the temporary foreign worker who travels halfway around the globe to Canada, scapegoats for prejudiced opinions without facts.
My son’s girlfriend, an AI specialist in engineering control systems, with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is a temporary foreign worker. From Ukraine. Calls home every night. Is often in tears. Lost a whole family friends she grew up knowing in a blow up of their van on a road outside of town. She is in a niche that the company was trying to fill the job, but the company was using her company in Europe as consultants and then she was offered to come to Montreal and work directly here. Don’t think that everyone on the program here are all dumb down people not educated to be exploited. Most are needed for specific fields.
The TFWP needs to be mostly shuttered except for truly hard to fill positions in emerging /innovative fields, healthcare, agriculture, and a few others. For decades it's been used to fill roles in fast food, grocery stores, gas stations, hotels, and foreign workers in these jobs move on to become permanent residents. The purpose of our immigration system is to raise our overall and collective skill level and income, but in practice it's been the very opposite.
Yes, I agree with you that the program needs strickter supervison and regulations that stops recruters with goals of exploitation. Only government assessed credible intermediates in each province need to be established. Also, to make locals accept the jobs, generally not delighted to do the farm labour and other hard work at low pay, the wage regulations must be protected and employers who pay below must be severely punished. No part time jobs without paying benefits must be allowed. That will probably put Walmart also out of business.
Yes but these reforms need to be made. No one wants to overpay and travel halfway around the world to be stuck in a low wage job and locals don't like it when they are undercut by people who should not be in those situations.
Every month we in Canada have half a million unfilled job openings. Do not make the temporary foreign worker who travels halfway around the globe to Canada, scapegoats for prejudiced opinions without facts.
They should not be if you read. At the same time the system is being abused by employers who want cheap controllable labour
My son’s girlfriend, an AI specialist in engineering control systems, with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is a temporary foreign worker. From Ukraine. Calls home every night. Is often in tears. Lost a whole family friends she grew up knowing in a blow up of their van on a road outside of town. She is in a niche that the company was trying to fill the job, but the company was using her company in Europe as consultants and then she was offered to come to Montreal and work directly here. Don’t think that everyone on the program here are all dumb down people not educated to be exploited. Most are needed for specific fields.
The TFWP needs to be mostly shuttered except for truly hard to fill positions in emerging /innovative fields, healthcare, agriculture, and a few others. For decades it's been used to fill roles in fast food, grocery stores, gas stations, hotels, and foreign workers in these jobs move on to become permanent residents. The purpose of our immigration system is to raise our overall and collective skill level and income, but in practice it's been the very opposite.
Yes even though it will upset the local Canadian Tire and Tim Hortons franchises to name a few.
Yes, I agree with you that the program needs strickter supervison and regulations that stops recruters with goals of exploitation. Only government assessed credible intermediates in each province need to be established. Also, to make locals accept the jobs, generally not delighted to do the farm labour and other hard work at low pay, the wage regulations must be protected and employers who pay below must be severely punished. No part time jobs without paying benefits must be allowed. That will probably put Walmart also out of business.
Yes but these reforms need to be made. No one wants to overpay and travel halfway around the world to be stuck in a low wage job and locals don't like it when they are undercut by people who should not be in those situations.