Same program, different mess, more lies from Jason Kenney

How Canada lets employers avoid temporary foreign worker reforms: Walkom

Ottawa is still letting companies bring in temporary foreign workers. It just calls them something else.

By: Thomas Walkom National Affairs, Published on Tue Jun 24 2014

On Friday, Employment Minister Jason Kenney made headlines with his promise to overhaul Canada’s temporary foreign workers program.\

 

The Conservative minister said his reforms were designed to ensure that employers didn’t hire foreigners at the expense of Canadians.

 

But as a Vancouver federal court case illustrates, Ottawa is still freely allowing companies to bring in temporary foreign workers.
 

It’s just using a different scheme.
 

This one is called the Intra-Company Transfer program (ICT). Foreign workers imported under it do not have to satisfy any of the conditions Kenney imposed Friday.
 

Employers who want to bring in ICT workers don’t need to first obtain so-called labour market opinions from the government. That means they don’t need to prove a dearth of qualified Canadians.
 

Nor are they required to pay a hefty $1,000 fee per foreign worker.
 

Nor is their ability to hire foreigners linked to the local unemployment rate.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/06/24/how_canada_lets_employers_avoid_temporary_foreign_worker_reforms_walkom.html