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Foreign Workers: Government brags of new jobs created, but gains are overstated, says economist.Victoria McDonald Reversed Temp Foreign Workers No with a Phone Call Documents reveal a program with poor structure and oversight, say critics.Will Tories Fix Temp Foreign Worker Program Look to Manitoba for gold standard of migrant worker protection, say advocates, according to Tyee. Last in a series.Read more Politics, Labour Industry, image Sign Up for the Tyee Newsletter The federal government routinely boasts that it has created more than a million jobs over the last seven years. Photo credit Actionplan.gc.ca. But the job creation numbers the government cites also include temporary foreign workers -- non-Canadians or residents brought to the country to work at jobs that employers here say they can t fill. Kendra Strauss, an assistant professor of labour studies at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, said lumping foreign workers in with figure (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.