Why is the Media Citing This Social Conservative Group as Experts on BC’s New Local Jobs Agreement?

Published July 19, 2018 Fact-Check

Some of BC’s biggest media outlets are presenting a dubious social conservative think tank as experts on labour agreements

WATCH Jason Kenney talk about TFW inspections that never happened

Published June 20, 2014

Employment Minister Jason Kenney talked tough Friday when he and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander announced reforms to Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program. Kenney played up “stronger enforcement” and “tougher penalties” — claiming the government will be “massively increasing” the number of inspections so one in four employers using the TFWP will be inspected each year. […]

Good news, restaurant owners: you don’t have a labour shortage anymore!

Published May 29, 2014

Dear President of Restaurants Canada, Earlier this week, you mentioned that even if restaurants offered $100 an hour for kitchen jobs, they’d still need to hire temporary foreign workers to fill the posts because Canadian workers just don’t want the jobs. Here’s the video clip of your interview, in which you call on the government to lift […]

Restaurant owners: paying $100/hr not enough to entice Canadians to work in their kitchens

Published May 28, 2014

Even if restaurants offered $100 an hour for kitchen jobs, they’d still need to hire temporary foreign workers to fill the posts because Canadian workers just don’t want the jobs, the head of Canada’s restaurant association says. Garth Whyte, president of Restaurants Canada, made the comment during an interview Tuesday on CBC’s Power & Politics […]

INTERNAL DOCS: Tory minister didn’t know he approved weaker TFW rules

Published May 22, 2014

The headline in the Globe and Mail said it all: “Temporary Yukon foreign worker program launched after mine layoffs.” It was late Friday, August 16, 2013, and Chris Alexander had only been serving as Immigration Minister for a month. But based on email correspondence released to PressProgress under access to information, his office knew right […]

Does this ad for pilots break Temporary Foreign Worker rules?

Published May 8, 2014

Is Sunwing freezing Canadian pilots out of jobs in favour of temporary foreign pilots — despite a promise by Jason Kenney’s department to stamp out the practice? Last fall, the Deputy Minister at Employment and Social Development Canada informed Kenney in an internal memo that Sunwing and Canjet were sidestepping “requirements and guidance” when it […]

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