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Immigration Minister Jason Kenney: Jason Kenney

Jason Kenney: OTTAWA - After weeks of public outcry over the scarcity of Canadian jobs, the Conservative government delivered a pink slip Monday to a series of controversial changes it made last year to the temporary foreign workers program. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. That rule allowed businesses to pay foreign workers up to 15 per cent below median wages, if that's what they were paying Canadians. Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney speaks about the government's Temporary Foreign Worker program during a news conference Monday April 29, 2013 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld Employers will no longer have flexibility to set the wages for foreign labour, calling a halt to what was known as the 15 per cent rule, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney told a news conference. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.