Canadian Labour Congress: Foreign Workers

Karl Flecker Dept: When the Conservatives took office in 2006, there were 140,000 temporary foreign workers farm labourers, nannies, professionals, etc. . That number has since jumped to 338,000, according to The Star. So the total may be about 500,000, reckons Karl Flecker of the Canadian Labour Congress and Terrorism was one reason for the inordinate delays in the processing of immigration papers to Canada each applicant had to have a thorough security check, which took time. How is it, then, that Immigration Minister Jason Kenney has managed to rush in hundreds of thousands of temporary foreign workers in record time? Have they been given only a cursory security check and the briefest of medicals? In fact, this understates that population. Ottawa does not know how many did not leave at the end of their visas and went underground. Plus there are 72,000 refugee claimants and 60,000 international students who have work permits. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.