Food Services and TFW

TFW: Ottawas changes to the temporary foreign worker TFW program reflect growing discontent over allowing employers in retail, food services and accommodation to bring in temporary workers from abroad to fill positions, according to The Chronicle Herald. The program concerned policymakers in Atlantic Canada, where the jobless rate has been high and the number of such workers had tripled from 2005 to 2012 and Canadians last week were treated to something unusual from the Harper Conservatives: an about-face on a policy issue driven partly by public opinion. Restaurant owners and others were keen on the program, which gave them a steady, reliable workforce that was, from 2012 to 2013, paid less than market wages. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.