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Jenna L Hennebry, Professor, International Migration Research Centre, Wilfrid Laurier University

The Temporary Foreign Worker Program is a failure, and new immigration limits make a bad situation worse

Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) was seemingly set up to fail. Multiple successive governments have long passed the buck to the next and still none are willing to fix it.

The human rights abuses and lack of access to citizenship pathways built into the TFWP have been noted by experts time and again, garnering considerable attention during the COVID-19 pandemic.


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