Citizenship Immigration Canada and Foreign Workers

Mark Schellwitz: They're saying hotel rooms won't be cleaned, double-doubles won't be poured, and the workers themselves will have to give up the dream of a better life in Canada. 'We're relying on anecdotal stories from our members.'— Mark von Schellwitz, Restaurants Canada That is all possibly true, but the problem is that Citizenship and Immigration Canada won't share the number of temporary foreign workers about to lose their work visas, and everyone else is depending on anecdotes, extrapolation and educated guesses, according to CBC. Some temporary foreign workers in Alberta to get reprieve Temporary foreign workers: mass exodus expected after April 1 Here are the numbers that we do know, using the Alberta example, since it has the most temporary foreign workers. As of the end of 2013, Alberta had nearly 41,000 temporary foreign workers who were brought to Canada because their employers said they couldn't find qualified Canadian staff. That the message from immigration lawyers and labour market analysts who say that Canada — and in particular Alberta — is due to lose thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of temporary foreign workers in the coming weeks and months. There are many thousands more here on the international mobility program. Not clear how many have to leave Here what we don't know — how many are set to leave April 1. The federal government estimates that Alberta will lose 8,047 low-wage temporary foreign workers by July 2016.1,000 temporary foreign workers who had applied for permanent residency in Alberta were offered a one-year reprieve while they waited for their applications to be processed. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.