Told you so
Talk about being hoisted by your own petard.
The low-wage dependency created by the out-of-control expansion of the federal temporary foreign worker program (TFWP) — a result of the Harper’s government total capitulation to the cheap-wage lobbyists — has now become a huge political problem for an increasingly unpopular Conservative government.
The downward pressure on wages is one thing, but the number of cases of employers abusing the program and exploiting the workers who come to Canada under their care is mounting.
And now there are complaints from Canadian workers who have been thrown out of work and replaced with workers brought in under the program.
But this should surprise no one, least of all the federal government. It was warned, repeatedly, that this would be the exact outcome of its changes to the TFWP.
Actions that included a fast-track cheap-wage scheme with few to no rules, no safeguards and little monitoring.
http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columnists/2014-05-03/article-3709920/Told-you-so/1
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