A damning U.N. report last week dubbed Canada's temporary foreign worker program as a 'breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery.'
is not fatally flawed but is “in need of reform,” the country’s immigration minister told Reuters on Tuesday,The program brings non-Canadians to the country to work on a temporary basis. Ostensibly meant to fill labor shortages, it has grown dramatically and has come under fire for suppressing wages and leaving workers vulnerable to abuse.
Among other things, these expansions increased the share of employers’ workforces that could be low-wage temporary foreign workers, and the change waived a rule precluding the hiring of temporary foreign workers in certain low-wage occupations in regions with unemployment rates of 6% or higher.Labour Minister Randy Boissonnault is considering “a refusal to process in the low wage stream if the abuse and misuse does not improve,” said labor ministry spokesperson Mathis Denis.
If it were up to him, he said, he would end the low-wage stream entirely. “I don’t think employers have some constitutional right to low-wage workers.” Reducing the number of temporary residents, as Canada plans to do, will not address problems making these migrants vulnerable, the special rapporteur found.
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