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This is an excerpt from Fay Faraday's report, "Made in Canada : How the Law Constructs Migrant Workers' Insecurity" (Toronto: Metcalf Foundation 2012), p. 24. It illustrates the difficulties that temporary foreign workers have in getting permanent…

This report illustrates how the Canadian economy relies on low-wage migrant workers who are granted temporary residency rights in Canada. The legal framework underpinning the Temporary Foreign Workers Program leaves these workers vulnerable to…

This data from Citizenship and Immigration Canada (name of organization at time of publication) represents the five provinces with the highest number of temporary
foreign workers. The data illustrates how policy changes to the TFWP affected the…

This segment on The Stream by Al Jazeera provides insight on concerns about the Temporary Foreign Worker Programs and the direction reforms should take in order to fall in line with Canadian values. The video notes conflicting public views about the…

This newspaper article reports on debates surrounding pay equity, as Ontario considered enacting equal pay legislation. This article highlights some of political issues related to employment that existed at the same time that foreign workers were…

This newspaper article reports on one of the most significant jobs losses in Canadian history, where a majority of auto-industry workers lost their jobs as a result of a financial crisis stemming from the United States.

This newspaper article expresses concern about the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP), which was initiated in 1973. This article illustrates how concern had shifted from bringing high skilled workers to bringing in low skilled workers to…

This file contains a record of a newspaper article published in the Globe and Mail in 1964. The author expresses concern that the immigration policy at the time was not sufficient to meet the demand for workers in the province of Ontario. This…