Western Canada

Western Canada: Understandably, Jim Prentice, the new Premier of Alberta, is responding to pressures from employers in his province and elsewhere in Western Canada to relax those changes, according to Globe and Mail. But the exception of the TFW program has unintentionally been allowed to mushroom and Jason Kenney, the Minister of Employment, is justified in not backing down on the changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, which limit the numbers of foreign workers that large and medium-sized companies are allowed to hire. The long-standing and well-founded policy of Canada has been opposed to guest-worker programs, with unusual exceptions at the high end for pro athletes and other well-paid professionals, and at the low end for seasonal agricultural workers. But for the most part, Canada has grown its labour force with permanent residents immigrants who have a clearly laid-out path to citizenship. This country does not want or need a temporary underclass. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.