OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre called on the Liberals on Wednesday to scrap the temporary foreign worker program, arguing it has caused an employment crisis among young Canadians.
“The Liberals have to answer why is it that they’re shutting our own youth out of jobs and replacing them with low-wage, temporary foreign workers from poor countries who are ultimately being exploited,” Poilievre told a news conference Wednesday morning in Mississauga, Ont.
“We want Canadian workers to have Canadian jobs. We want to bring back high wages.”
Data released by the federal government last month showed 33,722 new visas for temporary foreign workers were issued in the first six
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