Canada to allow fewer temporary foreign workers

Canada volition let successful less impermanent overseas workers nether tightened rules announced Monday, portion of a turnaround successful its generous migration argumentation that has resulted successful an unwieldy surge of newcomers.

The rules see reinstituting a prohibition connected impermanent overseas idiosyncratic permits for low-wage jobs successful cities with an unemployment complaint of six percent oregon higher.

Canada has precocious seen its highest colonisation maturation successful much than fractional a century, buoyed by immigration.

As the country’s colonisation pushed past 40 million, it meantime saw a spike successful unemployment.

Migration rules indispensable marque “sense successful the existent system for Canadians, but besides for the occupation marketplace arsenic it continues to constrict,” Immigration Minister Marc Miller told a quality conference.

“We won’t hesitate to instrumentality further measures if necessary,” helium added.

Alongside a headdress connected impermanent migrants unveiled successful March, a full of 65,000 less impermanent overseas workers per twelvemonth volition beryllium allowed into the country.

That headdress reduced impermanent migrants’ stock of the colonisation from 6.2 to 5 percent.

Ottawa had agreed to demands from businesses to summation entree to the impermanent overseas idiosyncratic programme arsenic companies struggled to capable occupation vacancies erstwhile the system took disconnected aft Covid-19 pandemic restrictions.

The authorities responded by astir doubling the fig of impermanent overseas workers admitted into the country, and expanded its rules to let for sectors specified arsenic fast-food. Previously astir were brought successful to enactment successful the cultivation industry.

But Canada’s unemployment complaint implicit the past twelvemonth surged to 6.4 percent and the colonisation spike enactment aggravated unit connected lodging and societal services.

“We privation to marque definite that Canadians person entree to those jobs” and stamp retired abuses successful the impermanent overseas idiosyncratic program, commented Jobs Minister Randy Boissonnault.

Among the caller rules announced Monday, permits for low-wage jobs volition beryllium issued for lone 1 year, down from 2 years.

The agriculture, wellness attraction and operation sectors volition beryllium exempt.

The stock of impermanent overseas workers an leader tin prosecute volition besides autumn to the pre-pandemic level of 10 percent, from 20 percent.

In January, Ottawa besides announced a headdress connected planetary students, saying it was being utilized arsenic a backdoor introduction to Canada.

The caller impermanent overseas idiosyncratic rules volition instrumentality effect connected September 26.