Phd Candidate: Food Chains

Vancouver Sun Dept: The servers and cooks at countless Canadian food outlets, as well as the staff in seniors care centres, are increasingly migrant Filipinos, says University of B.C. PhD candidate Lawrence Santiago. "There's been massive recruitment of temporary workers from the Philippines in recent years.", according to Vancouver Sun. Despite an economic downturn, the federal government has permitted the number of temporary foreign workers in Canada to swell from 160,000 in 2006 to 283,000 in 2010 and the faces of the staff at Tim Horton's, Denny's and many other Canadian food chains have been rapidly changing. While some employers have been pleased to sign up more foreign workers to meet what they maintain are labour shortages, the trend comes with controversy. Indeed, the debate over foreign workers has been bringing rare agreement among the political left and right. As reported in the news.
@t labour shortages, economic downturn