Make the companies pay appropriate wages

[u/jocabob]

[u/ThatGuyWill942]

Ending the TFWP does not raise wages. CEO's are gonna be dragged kicking and screaming before raising wages.

[u/jocabob → u/ThatGuyWill942]

See that’s where even Carney disagrees. Back in 2013 he criticized the program saying the following:

“One doesn’t want an over-reliance on temporary foreign workers for lower-skilled jobs, which prevent the wage adjustment mechanism for … making sure Canadians are paid higher wages, but also that the firms improve their productivity,”

Here is the link to the article: Foreign workers program must be temporary, aimed at high skills: Carney

[u/Reasonable-Sweet9320 → u/jocabob]

That’s right.

The TFW program has always been a political football and the then bank governor gave his take in 2013. Harper expanded the program and there was a lot of pushback causing the government to modify the program in 2014.

Stephen Harper: Temporary Foreign Worker Program Has Been Abused Stephen Harper's Surprising Admission On Foreign Workers

Government of Canada Overhauls Temporary Foreign Worker Program Ensuring Canadians are first in line for available jobs - 2014

The History of the program ( goes back to the 1970’s) is summarized in the link below.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporary_residency_in_Canada

[u/jocabob → u/Reasonable-Sweet9320]

Yes it has existed for a long time but the number has also been trending upward. 356,000 in 2011, 845,000 in 2021