OTTAWA—The federal government is overhauling the much-criticized Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) in an attempt to keep Canadian companies from abusing the plan by favouring foreign employees over Canadians and paying them less than workers here. “These reforms will require that greater efforts be made to recruit and train Canadians to fill available jobs,” Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said. “They will also help ensure the Temporary Foreign Worker Program is only used as intended — to fill acute skills shortages on a temporary basis.” The changes, introduced with legislation implementing the March 21 federal budget, will require employers requesting permission to bring in foreign workers to supply more information to Ottawa to prove they are not using the program to outsource Canadians jobs. Employers will also be required to show that they have a plan in place to shift gradually to hiring Canadian workers for the available jobs. And the government is scrapping a controversial pilot project that allowed Canadian companies under certain circumstances to pay foreign workers 15 per cent less than their Canadian counterparts.
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