Canada: Temporary workers now outnumber permanent immigrants

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Source: The Globe and Mail

Three years ago Canada passed a significant milestone when, for the first time, it accepted more temporary foreign workers than permanent residents.

It marked a major shift in policy for a country that historically was built through permanent immigration, and one that could have long-term consequences for Canadian society.

A new study from the Institute for Research on Public Policy suggests that the rapid growth of the temporary foreign worker program could undermine the model of integration that has so far made Canada’s consensus on expanded immigration the exception among Western nations.

Since 2002, the number of temporary foreign workers in Canada has nearly doubled. The program is in part a response to an aging population, but increasingly workers are sought for the unpalatable or poorly paid jobs Canadians simply refuse to take on.

... NDP immigration critic Olivia Chow described the increase in temporary foreign workers as a terrible policy that breaks with Canadian tradition. It’s bad for the economy, because it depresses wages and is a disincentive to invest in potentially more expensive Canadian workers, and bad for society, she said.

Read more: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/leap-in-temporary-foreign-workers-will-hurt-canada-long-term-critics-say/article1568394/

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1. If you ever are in the Vancouver airport you'll see this at a glance.

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2. That's what our great multinational conservanazi supported corporations want to do here.

Bring in foreign workers who will work for less money. Drag all of us down.
I'm glad I'm retiring. The younger generation may find that their new college diplomas won't get them anything with the multinationals. The American-born IT guys I know are having problems. If they lose their jobs, they may never get another in IT because they won't work for less and less and less.

It's the conservanazis wanting the US workforce get in a race to the bottom, destroying the middle class.

Sieg heil, limblaugh. :shrug:

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3. 3 years ago is when the neocons got into power in canada, albeit in a minority. Coincidence?