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Canada for the first time is planning to curb the number of temporary foreign workers it welcomes, officials announced Thursday, after years of lofty immigration levels.

Ottawa is proposing to reduce the number of temporary residents to five percent of the population over the next three years, down from the current 6.2 percent (2.5 million people).

That target will be firmed up after consultations with Canada’s provinces, some of which have been pushing back on large migrant inflows amid a housing crunch and soaring demands for services.

Restrictions on temporary foreign worker permits will start on May 1.

This follows a recently announced cap on new permits for international students and visa requirements for some Mexican travellers.

“Canada has seen a sharp increase in the volume of temporary residents in recent years, from a rise of international students to more foreign workers filling job vacancies to those fleeing wars and natural disasters,” Immigration Minister Marc Miller told a news conference.

However, Canada’s labour market is now much tighter, with its population growth, fueled by massive immigration, outpacing job creation.

According to government data, job vacancies fell 3.6 percent to 678,500 in the last three months of 2023, marking the sixth straight quarterly decline from a record high of 983,600 reached in the second quarter of 2022.

“Changes are needed to make the system more efficient and more sustainable,” Miller said.

Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault urged employers to consider hiring refugees before seeking to bring in temporary foreign workers.

He said businesses that are currently allowed to have temporary foreign workers make up to 30 percent of their workforce will see that proportion drop to 20 percent, except in the health care and construction sectors.

Canada’s immigration department, meanwhile, has been ordered by Miller to conduct a review of existing programs that bring in temporary labourers to better align them with labour needs and weed out abuses.

Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/03/for-first-time-canada-to-reduce-number-of-foreign-workers/

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Abeg make I enter before dem go stop Nigeria sha

iamtardey:
Abeg make I enter before dem go stop Nigeria sha

Baddest

And leave them sleeping in the street

Great100000:
Baddest

e no go badd if I enter this year o Aje

Solofresh2:
And leave them sleeping in the street

dey play

iamtardey:
e no go badd if I enter this year o Aje

And God will do am, just believe, work smart and work hard.

immigration policies are changing rapidly. Japa is becoming an endangered specie

Very soon, you guys will be coming to Nigeria to look for job

I heard this from a colleague

Damnnn niggar

This one go affect Nigeria well well

And I happy well well

Una nor fit step into the polling unit finish with sentiment and tribalism come begin find way to run leave the country

If proper management is not taken, the land will be desecreted soon. It's just a matter of time

God Abeg


No gree for anybody

Lol....


Make we no talk before Japa people start to dey say we dey hate say na bkuz we don give up on life....

They should hold on a little till my bros arrives here

It's well

Hmm

Nice one
Many of them will vote apc and run to Canada
They better stay home and enjoy their good government

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Great100000:
And God will do am, just believe, work smart and work hard.

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Believe
Work smart
Work hard.
Thanks

It's expected. The surge is overwhelming

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They should start with Nigerians especially zombie APc ers..

Everyone should be in Nigeria enjoying Tinubu government

Canada don cast with all their nonsense LGBTQ laws

iamtardey:
Abeg make I enter before dem go stop Nigeria sha

Dem no dey use mouth enter Canada, you thought it's mouth action?

[/b]except in the health care and construction sectors[b]

No place like home - Nigeria

edenex:
Nice one
Many of them will vote apc and run to Canada
They better stay home and enjoy their good government

Oga abeg I no even vote at all I no even get Voters card sef abeg Oga

KaptainAfrika:
JAPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA BEFORE IT IS TOO LATEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Anyone who ever voted APc and thinks of leaving this country should die a miserable death...

So shall it be...