Foreign Workers: Foreign Workers

Foreign Workers Dept: B.C. has 74,000 temporary foreign workers, the second-largest number in Canada behind Ontario, according to CBC. This week, a Go Public investigation revealed RBC is replacing 45 employees with temporary foreign workers at the end of the month. iGATE Corporation, a multinational outsourcing firm from India, employs the foreign workers and Labour groups in British Columbia say a range of industries in the province are growing increasingly reliant on a federal program to bring in temporary foreign workers. "They're being used in construction, they're being used in farming. They're being used in every sector of the economy now because employers are figuring out, boy it really fast and really cheap, and that's wrong," said Jim Sinclair, president of the B.C. Federation of Labour. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.