CTV Montreal | 3 August 2018 A restaurant owner in Quebec City says he’s had to search as far as Mexico to find workers to address the province’s labour shortage. Quebec’s unemployment rate is the lowest it’s been in 40 years, and with 90,000 jobs available, there’s fierce competition to recruit. “2017 was like the […]
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Northern Policy Institute | 22 July 2018 From 2002 to 2012, the number of temporary foreign workers (TFWs) in Canada tripled from 101,078 to 338,221 as businesses increasingly made use of the program – sometimes as a way to access cheaper labour. As a result, the government introduced a series of reforms to the Temporary
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A powerful feature documentary by multiple award-winning director Min Sook Lee (El Contrato, Hogtown, Tiger Spirit) and Emmy award-winning producer Lisa Valencia-Svensson (Herman’s House), tells the undertold story of migrant agricultural workers struggling against Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) that treats foreign workers as modern-day indentured labourers. Under the rules of Canada’s migrant labour
