Canada to pause temporary workers in Montreal
François Legault is to announce that Canada is going to pause approval of temporary foreign workers for low-wage jobs in Montreal. Apparently low wages are now considered anything below $27.47 an hour.
Adding later: Legault’s announcement also includes limits on foreign students and of course frames the reasoning as a way to protect French. In response, Paul St‑Pierre Plamondon is promising to drastically reduce all immigration if the PQ is elected.
Uatu 10:32 on 2024-08-20 Permalink
Great! Now all our problems are solved!/s
Joey 11:20 on 2024-08-20 Permalink
“Ceux qui travaillent en santé, en éducation, dans la construction, en agriculture et à la transformation alimentaire bénéficieront d’une exemption.” How many low-wage temporary foreign workers settled in Montreal to work in fields other than healthcare, education, construction, agriculture and food processing?
jeather 11:48 on 2024-08-20 Permalink
There have been a lot of articles about this — they were hired into low paid retail/hospitality/food service, where officially they were not allowed to do this if the unemployment rate is above 6% (which it currently is).