Foreign Worker and Employment Minister Jason Kenney

Employment Minister Jason Kenney: "We announced a fundamental suite of reforms to the temporary foreign worker program earlier this year to ensure that it is used only as a last and limited resort, and that Canadians always come first in the workforce," he said in response to queries from the opposition during the Commons question period on Tuesday, according to CTV. Kenney department says that the number of applications received in July and August was about 74 per cent lower than during the same time period in 2012, before the crackdown and - Employment Minister Jason Kenney says there been a significant decrease in applications for temporary foreign workers since the government announced an overhaul of the troubled program earlier this year. "Since those reforms were announced we have seen a 75 per cent reduction in the number of applications for temporary foreign workers on the part of employers." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.