Federal Government: TFW

TFW: According to data from Citizenship and Immigration Canada CIC , there were 124,017 admissions to Canada under the TFW program in the first six months of this year. Thats an increase of about five per cent from the same period in 2012, and up nearly 18 per cent since the same period in 2011, according to Huffington Post. However, the new rules came into effect after June, so the numbers for the first half of this year dont reflect the governments changes and The federal government has boosted the number of temporary foreign workers TFWs allowed into Canada, even as the governing Tories promised a crackdown on the contentious program. The increase in TFWs took place as the Harper government repeatedly announced it is tightening the program's rules, following an outcry this spring over laid-off workers at RBC being asked to train their replacements , some of whom came to Canada on TFW permits. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.