Canadian companies are ramping up their use of the Temporary Foreign Worker program to fill jobs after its contentious expansion by the federal government.
In the second quarter of this year, employers received approval to hire about 45,200 positions through the TFW program – the most since at least 2017, according to a Globe and Mail analysis of figures recently published by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, or IRCC. The April-to-June quarter tends to be a slower period for approvals: Many companies seek authorization in the winter, ahead of seasonal hiring for the summer.
This past spring period, however, was booming: TFW approvals were more than double those of the same period in 2018 and 2019.
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