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Originally Posted by belsarius
Those damned Liberals.. just sitting there doing nothing about the issues with the TFW program. Oh wait.....
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This post and attempted defense is quite ironic considering the Liberal stance in 2013-2014 (and where the program currently sits today).
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...642e4eb7c.html
https://liberal.ca/liberals-propose-...orker-program/
https://liberal.ca/conservatives-mis...orker-program/
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“As a result of the Conservatives’ mismanagement, the Temporary Foreign Worker Program has failed to achieve its original objective of filling jobs when qualified Canadian workers cannot be found, and Liberals are calling for the program to be scaled back and re-focused on its original purpose,” said Mr. McCallum. “Between 2005 and 2012, the number of short-term foreign workers in this country more than doubled, with nearly as many temporary foreign workers being admitted in 2012 as there were permanent residents. Should this continue, temporary worker entries will outnumber permanent resident entries by 2015.”
The Liberal Party is therefore proposing immediate reforms to the program: the government must ensure real transparency and accountability in the program, which should begin with a full review of the program by the Auditor General, as well as the public disclosure of information concerning what jobs are being offered to temporary foreign workers and in what communities; it must require employers to demonstrate that every effort has been made to fill positions with Canadian workers and young Canadian workers in particular; and finally, the government should tighten the Labour Market Opinion approval process.
“The Liberal Party has repeatedly warned the Conservatives that abuses of this program have been hurting the middle class by driving down wages and displacing Canadian workers,” said Mr. McCallum. “Last year we proposed that a review of the program be conducted, but every Conservative MP voted down our motion as they claimed that a review was not necessary. It is only now, following a slew of bad press, that the Conservatives have acknowledged the program’s failures.”
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The Harper Conservatives are placing a higher priority on outsourcing Canadian jobs to foreign workers than on training our labour force to match unprecedented skills shortages across the country. On their watch, the number of temporary foreign workers in Canada has ballooned by nearly 200,000 or 140% since 2005, growing to 338,189 workers in 2012. This has all occurred while many Canadians across the country are facing serious difficulty securing employment.
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Well, apparently Liberals are quite anti-immigrant according to the new criteria set by a few select posters in this thread. They even hit all the talking points that are apparently xenophobic. Middle class, young workers, too many immigrants taking jobs that Canadians can do if they were trained for it, driving down wages, displacing Canadian workers. Trudeau himself was a huge opponent of the TFW program when run under Harper and campaigned to dramatically cut down on its use, citing unfairness to Canadians. In the end not only did he go back on his commitment to fix the program and stop abuse at the expense of Canadians, he doubled the amount of TFWs under his government (something which the Liberals themselves heavily criticized the Conservatives of doing).
https://www.theorca.ca/commentary/do...ruggle-7305252
Of course we now get claims (from gosh gee look who it is??? Could it be some of the usual suspects?) that the problem was never the TFW program itself, and any criticism of the program is now considered anti-immigrant rhetoric. Really. Quite odd take if we look at some past comments by a couple said select usual suspects when the TFW program was considered a Conservative failure at the time with some very interesting critics. Should we dig back those comments for fun?
Now we have this farce being presented. The only thing that changed throughout is the Liberal party stance and the usual suspects going along with whatever the stance of the day may be.