US EditionPoilievre calls for temporary foreign worker program to be scrapped
Pierre Poilievre contends that the temporary foreign worker program reduces employment opportunities for Canadian youth by allowing corporations to hire lower-paid foreign workers, worsening youth unemployment.
- Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is urging the Liberals to eliminate the temporary foreign worker program and halt visa issuance under it.
- Poilievre claims the program contributes to a jobs crisis for young Canadians due to corporations hiring foreign workers at lower wages.
- He specifically criticizes fast-food chains for hiring foreigners instead of local workers through targeted job postings.
- Poilievre also accuses Prime Minister Mark Carney of failing to fulfill infrastructure promises and creating challenges for young people entering the job market.
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Poilievre Calls on Ottawa to End Temporary Foreign Worker Program
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on the federal government to permanently end the temporary foreign worker (TFW) program, saying it has shut young Canadians out of employment and allowed some businesses to take advantage of newcomers. “It is a very exploitative system that has allowed corporate elites to profit off of driving wages down and driving jobs out, and we’re going to put an end to it,” Poilievre said during a Sept. 3 pre…
Carney’s Conservative Rival Targets Foreign Workers in Clash Over Jobs
Canadian Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre demanded the government abolish the country’s temporary foreign worker program, arguing that it allows employers to import low-wage labor at the expense of young Canadians.
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre made immigration his new battlehorse a few weeks from the start of parliament. On Wednesday he called for the abolition of the Temporary Foreign Workers Program (PTET), which, according to him, creates "a cheap foreign labour force" and points the finger at large companies such as the Tim Hortons coffee chain.
Poilievre calls on Carney to immediately scrap the Temporary Foreign Worker Program
News release from the Conservative Party of Canada Today, the Hon. Pierre Poilievre, Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and the Official Opposition, and the Hon. Michelle Rempel Garner, Shadow Minister for Immigration, announced their plan to tackle the Liberal unemployment crisis by permanently scrapping the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) program and immediately ending new permits. “Prime Minister Carney has failed to meet his own alrea…
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