2010-09-09
Global Calgary
It's a controversial government program that is now under review; the provincial government is looking into the impact of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, and so is Global News.
Global Saskatoon
It's a controversial government program that is now under review; the provincial government is looking into the impact of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, and so is Global News.
The program is designed to accommodate the mutual needs of industries who need workers and foreigners who want jobs and a better life here in our country. The labour shortages forced desperate businesses to plead with the government to relax the rules to allow more temporary foreign workers.
But things got complicated when the program expanded during the boom because there was little planning about what would happen to these foreign workers when the economic explosion came to an end.
Many of the workers now say they simply can't afford to go home because they arrived here in debt after paying shady recruiters thousands of dollars.
Many never believed their situation would be temporary.
Starting Monday, September 6th on the News Hour, we'll reveal more of the fallout of this program, the political will to change it and some of the positive stories that have emerged from this program.
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