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   Because Kenney is just 'phasing in' restrictions, it will be difficult   
   to tell.   It should have an impact on YOUTH unemployment first.   
      
   If Kenney was serious about protecting Canadian jobs, he wouldn't be   
   allowing corporations to park their asses in Canada to benefit from tax   
   breaks, while bringing in their foreign worker staff with them as their   
   labour force.   
      
   And get his disingenuous comment on the 'program was opened up in 2002'.   
     That program had a small number of temporary workers come into Canada   
   for short terms only:   
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   In 2002, the federal Liberal government introduced the Low Skill Pilot   
   Project allowing companies to apply to bring in temporary foreign   
   workers to fill low skill jobs. The classification of “low skillâ€� means   
   that workers require no more than high school or two years of   
   job-specific training to qualify.   
      
   In 2006, the federal Conservatives expanded the list of occupations that   
   qualified for the Low Skill Pilot Project and increased the speed of   
   processing applications.   
      
   In April 2012, the government introduced the Accelerated Labour Market   
   Opinion. The ALMO for those employers that had been issued a LMO in the   
   previous two years, only applied to high skilled TFW and operated as a   
   fast-tracked LMO.   
   By the end of 2012, there were over 340,000 workers in the TFWP residing   
   in Canada. The majority of the workers are in Ontario, Alberta and   
   British Columbia.   
      
      
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   By Terry Milewski, Susana Mas, CBC News Posted: Jun 21, 2014   
      
      
   Jason Kenney effectively phasing out temporary foreign workers in   
   low-wage jobs   
      
      
   Employment Minister Jason Kenney says he considered shutting down the   
   low-skilled stream of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program altogether,   
   but decided to phase it out instead.   
      
   In an interview airing Saturday on CBC Radio's The House, Kenney says he   
   agrees with the argument that the free market should decide whether   
   businesses need to increase wages to attract workers.   
      
   "To be honest, if I were setting policy today," Kenney told guest host   
   Terry Milewski, I would not have opened that program as they did in   
   2002. But it's there."   
      
   "So why not shut it down?" Milewski asked.   
      
   I think that's a fair question," Kenney replied, "We seriously looked at   
   that as an option.   
      
     "We seriously looked at saying what every other developed country   
   does: no general low-skilled temporary foreign workers stream," Kenney   
   said. "We came to the conclusion that the economic costs in general and   
   the adjustment costs for particular businesses would be too extreme."   
      
   "Probably several thousands of businesses, if we did that cold turkey,   
   would go out of business," Kenney told Milewski.   
      
   Kenney announced Friday, just as Parliament went on summer recess, that   
   employers will be barred from hiring temporary foreign workers in   
   regions where the unemployment rate is above six per cent.   
      
   The government would also put a 10 per cent cap on the number of   
   low-wage temporary foreign workers employers can hire per work site by 2016.   
      
   Kenney told Milewski, "We are phasing it down."   
      
   That cap will be gradually phased in, starting at 30 per cent effective   
   immediately, then reduced to 20 per cent on July 1, 2015, and 10 per   
   cent a year later in 2016.   
      
   The minister said that in 2016, "The government could then decide to go   
   to zero per cent and eliminate the low-skilled stream, but we're trying   
   to do this in a prudent way where the adjustment costs are moderate and   
   we don't just end up causing devastation for thousands of businesses."   
      
   Other reforms to the program include:   
      
   -    An increase in the number of inspections: one in four employers   
   will be inspected each year. The government says it will hire   
   approximately 20 more inspectors, bringing the number to about 60.   
   -   An increase from $275 to $1,000 in the application fee employers   
   must pay per worker requested, effective immediately.   
   -    Fines of up to $100,000 for employers who abuse the program,   
   starting in fall.                  <<=== yeah, right  (>_<)   
   -    Additional funding for the Canada Border Services Agency so it can   
   pursue more criminal investigations.   
   -    Posting the names of employers who receive permission to hire   
   foreign workers.           <<===  ヽ(^。^)ノ   
   -    Making public the number of positions approved through the program   
   on a quarterly basis.   
   -    Reducing the amount of time a temporary foreign worker can be   
   employed in Canada, to two years from four.   
      
   Several business groups, which have been generally supportive of the   
   government's initiatives, were critical of the government's announcement   
   Friday, saying Kenney used a bulldozer where a hammer would have sufficed.   
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   Some 'bulldozer'.  More like a dirt mover that doesn't know where to put   
   the dirt it's scooping.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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