Canadian Worker and the Canadian Government Program

The Canadian government program: The Canadian government program allows companies here to employ non-Canadians to fill job openings that can't be filled by a Canadian worker. , according to CBC. Pitched as a way to keep Canada's economy humming in the face of so-called critical shortages in Canada's labour market, the program has fallen into disrepute in recent months as a number of large Canadian companies have been accused of abusing the program to hire cheaper, foreign workers at the expense of Canadian workers . There's evidence that the government's Temporary Foreign Worker Program nudges the unemployment rate higher in some sectors of the economy and parts of the country, think-tank C.D. Howe says in a report released Thursday. The program grew from 101,000 people in 2002, to as large as 338,000 across the country 10 years later. 'Canadians are first in line for available jobs.' - Spokeswoman for Employment Minister Jason Kenney (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.