Worker Program: Canada and Workers

worker program: Government offers incentives for innovation Liberals spend on training and innovation while holding line on most taxes As part of Canada's evolving foreign labour strategy, late last year, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada announced that it was doing away with the four-year limit for temporary foreign workers in Canada, according to CBC. While eliminating this rule provides much-needed flexibility for Canadian employers who face labour shortages, this change may actually hurt some temporary foreign workers in the long run. But as the rules around foreign workers evolve, Canada risks leaving behind some potential citizens. When the four-year limit was initially brought in, the intention was to underscore the temporariness of the foreign worker program. The thinking was that if a foreign national's ability to work in Canada was limited to only four years, he or she would know that this was only a temporary arrangement and would plan to return home to work. Under the rule, temporary foreign workers who work in Canada for four years are not eligible to become temporary foreign workers again unless they are out of Canada for four additional years hence, the regulation became known as the four-in, four-out rule. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.