I am concerned about the foreign worker program, because we're bringing almost as many temporary foreign workers into Canada as immigrants. They don't have to meet any educational, language, or skill requirements. Some of them are highly skilled and educated, but the bulk of them are not. They're fairly unskilled, reasonably cheap labour that's being brought into the country.
Employers have to get them because they can't get skilled workers from the immigration stream any more. You might wait eight years, if you're a good carpenter, mechanic, or tool-maker. You're in the backlog of a million people. So the employer can't get those kinds of workers, although there has been some improvement in that with this list of 29 occupations that can be pulled to the front of the line.
I don't think we should be making the same mistake as the Europeans did in the sixties and seventies, bringing in thousands of temporary workers who are foreign but not temporary. They don't go home. There's no control over them in Canada. They come in. They can arrive in Brandon to work in a meat-packing plant, and the next day they can fly to Toronto. The employer isn't even required to report that they've left.