Foreign Workers and Jason Kenney

Jason Kenney: In an August 2013 briefing note for Employment Minister Jason Kenney, department officials warned that industries which commonly employ young Canadians are also among the highest employers of temporary foreign workers. , according to Hamilton Spectator. Critics of the temporary foreign worker program have raised concerns that employers were hiring lower-paid foreign workers, rather than Canadian workers. Kenney office says reforms made in June 2014, almost one year after the internal briefing, have specifically addressed the issue. The Conservative government knew the temporary foreign worker program was causing pressures on youth employment almost a year before reforming the program, documents show. "Five of the top six industries that employ the most youth were also in the top half of temporary foreign worker program users," reads the document, prepared shortly after Kenney was appointed to the department. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.