Unpaid Wages and Canadian Living Standards

Canadian living standards: The main goal of Canadian economic policy is raising Canadian living standards, including achieving an unemployment rate low enough to be called full employment, raising labour productivity and raising wages. There are real arguments over how to get there among politicians see election, Ontario, 2014 economists and central bankers. Its a complicated, long-term story. But any redesign of the TFW program has to start by asking some simple questions about whether it is helping to further Canadas economic goals: Is this program benefiting Canadians? Is it likely to raise productivity and living standards? Is it likely to lower wages?, according to Globe and Mail. A growing number of abuses of temporary foreign workers have also come to light unpaid wages, substandard working conditions, threats of being booted from the country if they complained. These are also a logical consequence of the current system and The Temporary Foreign Workers program is about to get an overhaul, with Employment Minister Jason Kenney expected to bring in new rules in the coming weeks. The question is whether the minister will go in for window dressing, or whether he ll deliver a deep and fundamental reform. The program needs the latter. It needs to be completely rethought. The current system is not working as promised, but it is working as expected. In theory, the Labour Market Opinion system is only supposed to allow employers to bring in temporary foreign workers for jobs where no Canadians can be found. But in a dynamic labour market with millions of workers, its almost impossible for a small government bureaucracy to know how many Canadians are or are not willing and able to work the short-order cook night shift at a burger shack in Prince Albert, Sask. As a result, the process seems to have often become a rubber stamp. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.