The Temporary Foreign Worker Program and Foreign Workers

foreign workers: With their mismanagement of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, the Conservatives have done serious damage to that commitment, according to The Star. As a result, the number of short-term foreign workers in Canada has more than doubled, from 141,000 in 2005 to 338,000 in 2012. There were nearly as many temporary foreign workers admitted into the country in 2012 as there were permanent residents 213,573 of the former compared to 257,887 and Throughout our history, Canadas immigration policy has brought people here who had a pathway to citizenship. They were and are nation builders. It has been supported by political parties of all stripes, and promoted by successive governments over generations. Since taking office, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party have transformed the Temporary Foreign Worker Program which was originally designed to bring in temporary workers on a limited basis when no Canadian could be found into one that has brought in a large pool of vulnerable workers. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.