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BlogHow do I get a work visa for Canada?Work PermitsWorking in CanadaMore Changes to Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program – Government Takes Aim at Employer’s Pocketbooks to Reduce Reliance on Foreign Workers

22 October 2024

Effective November 8, 2024 it will cost Canadian employers 20% more to hire foreign workers under Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program’s (TFWP) High-Wage Stream. The latest announcement made on October 21, 2024 by the Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Official Languages, the Honourable Randy Boissonnault, is intended to further drive down overall temporary immigration levels in Canada.

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BlogWork PermitsWorking in CanadaEmployer Alert! Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program is under attack – again!

13 August 2024

For many years, if not decades, Canada has had a love-hate relationship with our foreign worker program. We routinely swing back and forth from facilitating foreign workers to come to Canada to fill labour shortages to restricting the ability of employers to bring temporary labour to the country.  At present, we seem to be, once again, at the restrictive and limiting swing of the pendulum.  Employers need to know what they are facing in this ever-changing and compliance based environment that is the current norm.

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BlogCanadian Immigration ProgramsWorking in CanadaCanada’s Foreign Worker Program: What Employers Need to Know?

7 October 2013

We are constantly hearing that Canada is facing a shortage of workers and that we need to turn to immigration to satisfy the labour market needs of Canadian employers. Yet, while economists and demographers continue to chronicle Canada's labour shortage and that foreign workers are badly required to sustain our economic growth, the Government of Canada has been making numerous changes throughout this spring and summer that are of key significance to employers. Two controversial cases this past winter concerning Chinese mine workers in Northern British Columbia and the Royal Bank's termination of domestic employees while outsourcing work off shore, garnered considerable media attention. The government reacted by dramatically modifying its foreign worker program and making it tougher for employers to bring in foreign workers to Canada.

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BlogCanadian Immigration ProgramsHow do I immigrate to Canada?Working in CanadaThe Doors Are Open: Canada Invites Economic Immigrants!

28 May 2013

Over the past five months, Canada's Minister of Immigration has either created, modified or re-opened 5 separate categories for immigration to Canada in the economic program. This signals a strong message to the world that the doors are open for immigrants to Canada and also demonstrates the Canadian government's recognition of the significance that immigrants play in Canada's overall economic growth.

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BlogCanadian Immigration ProgramsHow do I get a work visa for Canada?Working in CanadaCanada’s Skilled Worker Program Re-Opens It’s Doors!

13 May 2013

Canada's skilled worker program for permanent residence was re-opened on May 4, 2013 after several months of being suspended. Immigration Minister Jason Kenney closed the program in June of 2012 to further address a backlog of applications as well as to overhaul the program. The skilled worker category has been the cornerstone of Canada's economic immigration program for decades but in recent years had built up a backlog of nearly one million applications that were often taking in excess of five years to process. The newly re-introduced skilled worker program is designed to allow processing to occur far more quickly. In addition the new program changes shift emphasis from education and foreign work experience to language proficiency and Canadian work experience with the goal of enhancing an immigrant's ability to integrate into the Canadian workplace more quickly.

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BlogCanadian Immigration ProgramsHow do I get a work visa for Canada?Working in CanadaCanada’s Skilled Worker Program To Be Back in Business

28 January 2013

Minister Kenney announced on December 19, 2012, that he will re-introduce the Federal Skilled Worker Program effective May 4, 2013. Canada’s cornerstone Skilled Worker Program had been suspended since June of 2012, given a huge backlog of cases that had built up over years. The new Skilled Worker Program is designed to allow processing to occur in a far more timely fashion. The program’s changes also shift emphasis from education and foreign work experience to language proficiency and Canadian work experience.

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