Faster Removal of Foreign Criminals Act   are actually being filled by temporary foreign workers. Now, with a stroke of the pen, the minister has decided those foreign workers can be paid 15% less than their Canadian counterparts, so it will be even easier for an employer to say they cannot find anybody because the employer

Environment committee  No, compared to the average budget over the last six years, it saw a 15% reduction from those numbers. So the budget today would be 15% less than the average of the previous six years, and I'll have to get back to you on what that average was for the last six years, but my

Protecting Canada's Immigration System Act  . It is another example of the doublespeak we get from the government about how it wants to welcome refugees and welcome new Canadians, but we will now have a situation where temporary foreign workers are being allowed into this country and will be paid 15% less than everybody else

Finance committee  Pay them 15% less.

Finance committee   be doing that now, but we've certainly seen instances where that has happened, and this government recently made a change that allowed temporary foreign workers to be paid 15% less than the prevailing wage. That is a low-wage strategy; it depresses wages for all workers. Recently

Incorporation by Reference in Regulations Act  Mr. Speaker, I want to remind the member that this party did not vote against economic action. I voted against eviscerating environmental legislation. I voted against paying temporary foreign workers 15% less than Canadians. I voted against bringing temporary foreign workers

Human Resources committee   workers are vulnerable and exploited harms not just temporary foreign workers but all members of Canada's domestic labour market. In other words, if temporary foreign workers are treated badly and among other things permitted to be paid up to 15% less than workers in the domestic

Natural Resources committee   looked at to reverse and go in the other direction. That is an existing pipeline, so it’s an easy way to satisfy that. Number two, the price they're paying today is a world oil market price, which we would all hope to get, but in stranded oil in Canada and the U.S., it's about $15

Economic Action Plan 2013 Act, No. 1   that these fees would not be passed on to the temporary foreign workers themselves and there is no measure anywhere cited to ensure that they would not be. The government is now trying to fix problems it created. The last time it tried to fix problems, it allowed employers to pay up to 15

Economic Action Plan 2013 Act, No. 1   that they went too far. They were allowing companies to pay temporary foreign workers 15% less than Canadians workers. Today, they admit that that was a mistake, even though they completely denied those accusations less than a week ago. They announced a program to fast-track the processing

Economic Action Plan 2013 Act, No. 1   to foreign workers, who are paid 15% less. In addition to this legislation, a number of other changes are being made, which shows how poorly crafted the program really is. Can we trust a government that says it wants to stimulate the economy, when everything is so flawed? We cannot even

Economic Action Plan 2013 Act, No. 1   are allowed to be paid 15% less than the prevailing Canadian wage, yet we are supposed to think that is a good thing. The government is driving down wages time after time with its policies and formulas, and even this budget would do it again. How would it do it specifically? It would do

Committees of the House   15% less, is basically accommodating a race to the bottom. It has an impact by suppressing salaries for Canadians, but it also gives less pay to those who are coming to do the same work.

Employment  Mr. Speaker, a year ago the Conservatives created a new accelerated approval process for hiring temporary foreign workers. They allowed them to be paid 15% less than Canadian workers doing the same job. That is an incentive to hire temporary foreign workers instead of Canadians

Employment   and replaced, and the Minister of Human Resources is allowing the temporary foreign workers who replaced them to be paid 15% less. That is an incentive to fire Canadians. Would either of these two ministers give Canadians some good news, like perhaps there will be a couple of jobs