Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP): Model Program - or Mistake?

Report/Press release

Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP): Model Program - or Mistake?

Date

2010

Authors

Canadian Labour Congress and Karl Flecker

Abstract

Demonstrates, through problems with the SAWP and low-skill program (focus on ag workers) that these are not model programs, but in need of major overhaul and new regulatory mechanisms.

Responsible institution

Canadian Labour Congress

Place published

Ottawa

File Attachments

model-program-or-mistake-2011-en.pdf
325 KB

Links

http://www.canadianlabour.ca/news-room/publications/canada-s-temporary-foreign-worker-program-tfwp-model-program-or-mistake

Economic sectors

General relevance - all sectors

Content types

Policy analysis and Numbers of migrant workers

Target groups

Researchers, Unions, and NGOs/community groups/solidarity networks

Geographical focuses

Federal and National relevance

Spheres of activity

Law and Political science

Languages

English

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