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Canada has a long history of racialized, gendered, and classed immigration that has been put in place to meet labour market needs. Migrant temporary workers have been played an integral role in this development. In this article, we address the growing importance of Canada's Temporary Foreign Workers Program, contextualizing it within global political economy in terms of flexibility, racialization and genderization. We show the growing importance of temporary migrants in various labour markets and briefly explain that in the 21st century different processes for bringing in temporary migrants to Canada are being used as vehicles to privatize immigration and to further racialize and genderize it.