Immigration Minister Jason Kenney: Foreign Workers

Canada Dept: It is contributing to what Kenney calls the "bizarre paradox of Canadians without jobs and jobs without workers" that's being debated in Parliament and in the media across the country at a time when there are a record number of so-called TFWs in Canada, according to Calgary Herald. With youth unemployment at 14 per cent and funding cuts to post-secondary education, the criticism is foreigners are taking jobs from Canadians and Amid all the debate over temporary foreign workers in Canada, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is putting some of the blame for the lack of apprentices in the resource industry on the companies and provincial governments. There are now more than 338,000 temporary foreign workers across Canada as the NDP and Liberals accuse the Conservatives mismanaging the program that dates to 1973. Even Prime Minister Stephen Harper expressed concern about the growth in the number of TFWs and his government is reviewing the program. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.