Human Resources Minister Diane Finley: Project

Federal Government Dept: Human Resources Minister Diane Finley said the government isn t satisfied with the process that led to the granting of the permits, and said it has put the Temporary Foreign Workers program under review, according to Vancouver Sun. Just over a dozen of the 201 workers have already arrived at the Murray River project near Tumbler Ridge to begin work on a 100,000-tonne bulk sampling of a coal seam. The project is still under provincial environmental review and oTTAWA The federal government moved Thursday to distance itself from its own increasingly controversial decision to grant permits to 201 Chinese nationals to work in a northeast B.C. coal project. Criticism has continued to mount over plans, first reported by The last month, by a consortium of mostly Chinese companies to eventually hire 1,600 to close to 2,000 Chinese nationals under the TFW program to work in four B.C. underground mines. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.