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Foreign Worker Program and Foreign Worker Program

: Temporary Foreign Worker Program: 'Stiff' new penalties coming Dec. 1Temporary foreign worker program too bureaucratic, say Quebec farmers Temporary foreign worker dies in freak accident, leaves chilling testimony "First they said to me eight weeks, then they said a month later, no, it 14 weeks," Guertin said, according to CBC. He worried his apples will have rotted on the branches by the time the visas arrive. St-Paul-d'Abbotsford orchard owner Réjean Guertin said he down workers, particularly those from Guatemala, because of the delays. My son said to me that if we don't have Mexican or Guatemalan workers, we sell the farms.'- Réjean Guertin, farmer The changes to Canada Temporary Foreign Worker Program has hit some farmers in Quebec hard. The number must drop to 10 per cent starting in July 2016. Employers can have no more than 20 per cent of their workforce as low-wage temporary foreign workers. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.