Temporary Foreign Worker Program linked to joblessness, report finds
There's evidence that the government's Temporary Foreign Worker Program nudges the unemployment rate higher in some sectors of the economy and parts of the country, think-tank C.D. Howe says in a report released Thursday.
The Canadian government program allows companies here to employ non-Canadians to fill job openings that can't be filled by a Canadian worker.
The program grew from 101,000 people in 2002, to as large as 338,000 across the country 10 years later.
Pitched as a way to keep Canada's economy humming in the face of so-called critical shortages in Canada's labour market, the program has fallen into disrepute in recent months as a number of large Canadian companies have been accused of abusing the program to hire cheaper, foreign workers at the expense of Canadian workers.
In its report, the non-partisan C.D. Howe Institute looked at a number of examples, but focused on what impact the program had on the labour market in British Columbia and Alberta — two provinces with comparatively high percentages of temporary foreign workers.
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