Tories to Improve Data for Temporary Foreign Worker Program

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Sources claim that the federal Conservatives are hoping to improve their job data and use it to help refurbish the longsuffering temporary foreign worker program. In an effort to do so, Employment and Social Development Minister, Jason Kenney, is anticipated to announce two new job market studies in the coming weeks including a quarterly job vacancy survey and an annual national wage report.

The two surveys will be undertaken by Statistics Canada and will be targeted to collect maximum detailed information about where workers are needed, skill and educational levels required for jobs, and the average wage for positions in economic regions. Consequently, the survey will look into factors that are expected to help in approving the application of temporary foreign worker. The move is deemed as an answer to serious allegations of widespread abuse of the foreign workers program, especially in the food service industry. The Conservatives have attempted to stop the political bleeding by temporarily suspending that industry from making use of the program, and promising reform.

On the other hand, the new data has also come after weeks of opposition taunting about the Conservatives’ use of data gleaned from Kijiji in their assessments of the Canadian job market. According to a government source with ample knowledge of the initiative, which spoke on condition of anonymity, “yes, it’s tied to the upcoming (temporary foreign workers) reform, but it’s also something that (Kenney) has been talking about from the beginning,”.