The federal changes will bar low-wage temporary foreign workers in regions with an unemployment rate over six per cent, while raising the minimum pay rate for high-wage workers.
The restaurant industry is warning prices could drastically increase because of changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker program. Richard Zussman has more.in British Columbia is sounding the alarm over coming changes to the temporary foreign worker program it says will only drive prices higher.
“Once one person is employed at the rest of the industry will see that as the median income, and we are going to see that passed on to consumers, we are going to see massive price increases,” he said. “We are losing more people in our industry than we are gaining each year. This has been a lifeline since the pandemic, and now the rug is being pulled out from beneath us.”U.S. election: Students at Kamala Harris’s Canadian high school want her to run againQuebec opposition parties slam health-care reform progress
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