Ghada Alsharif

Trudeau announced his government will reduce low-wage temporary foreign workers with stricter rules, calling on employers to hire Canadian workers instead.

Trudeau announced his government will reduce low-wage temporary foreign workers with stricter rules.

Trudeau announced his government will reduce low-wage temporary foreign workers with stricter rules.

Measures to fast-track applications resulted in fewer checks to prevent fraud, a source tells the Star. The government counters it is "taking concrete steps" address fraud in the program.

Open work permits, which untethers migrants from a single abusive employer, grew from 240 in 2019 to more than 2,000 in 2023 — and immigration watchdogs say numbers will increase.

The new measures aim “to ensure that only genuine and legitimate job offers are approved, helping prevent misuse of the program and ensuring stronger worker protection,” according to Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault.

The new measures aim “to ensure that only genuine and legitimate job offers are approved,” says employment minister.

For six weeks, I hustled for orders and made a shockingly low wage. Uber says my experience was 'atypical' — but workers I spoke to say differently.

New rules were introduced by Ottawa in September meant to slow down the hiring of TFWs, though experts don't expect a decline in numbers anytime soon.

As of December, the unemployment rate for newcomers — people who became permanent residents in the past five years or less — rose to 9.6 per cent, nearly double the