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David Chute and Foreign Workers

foreign workers: Nova Scotian apple growers are worried about getting lumped together with the controversy surrounding Canadas Temporary Foreign Worker Program, according to The Chronicle Herald. Perception of the public, they lump everything together. They hear foreign workers, they just group everyone together, said David Chute, a tree fruit grower in Berwick, who will hire foreign workers for the first time this year and The program, which brings foreign workers to Canada, is currently under review after alleged abuses of the program and workers. This is separate from the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program, which allows foreign farm labourers to stay in Canada for a maximum of eight months. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.