According to a recent poll, Canadians believe that 12 per cent of our labour force is made up of TFWs, when the real number is 2 per cent. Many believe that most temporary foreign workers are low-skilled service industry employees. For example, NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair said the TFWP “morphed into having everybody in your McDonalds or your Tim Hortons coming from another country.” But in fact, only 0.21 per cent of Canada’s work force is made up of temporary foreign workers in such low-skilled jobs, and only 2 per cent of Canada’s 1.1 million restaurant workers are temporary foreign workers. This is why Statistics Canada has said that the program’s impact on unemployment is “negligible.
Posted on: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 21:00:39 +0000
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