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Originally Posted by Jets4Life
Just slightly off topic, but I am a little confused, as to why the government would let a foreign worker stay in Canada for 4 or even 5 years, then due to abuses of their employer, have to be sent back home. I mean if you can demonstrate you are hard working, employable, an asset to the country, and a good citizen, should the government not offer these people permanent residency?
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It's the
Temporary Foreign Workers program. The whole point of the program is that the people hired are going to return to their homes when they are no longer needed in Canada.
As heartless as it might sound, the TFW program isn't about helping the workers come to Canada or to become Canadians. It's about allowing Canadian companies to fill hard-to-fill job vacancies by temporarily hiring foreign workers.
A key part of the TFW program is that businesses are supposed to have a plan to reduce their reliance on foreign workers and replace the TFWs with permanent Canadians over time.
The TFW program is supposed to be a last-resort temporary solution. Too many businesses were using it as a first-choice long-term solution, so the government had to tighten up the rules.