The Budget   and pay them 15% less than Canadian workers. It is cheap labour. That is what that means. The Conservatives have crucified people in my region by making cuts to employment insurance, seasonal work, the fisheries and the forestry industry. They have not done anything to help New

Business of Supply   in seasonal industries, feel that they are being attacked by the Conservative government. Their wages are being lowered. If they happen to be unemployed, their wages are being driven down. Companies are allowed to bring in foreign workers and pay them 15% less to do the same work

Agriculture committee   but for their neighbours and the industry. If the agronomics indicate that canola produced on the same field will yield say 15% less, then perhaps coverage levels should be adjusted on those individual bases. Undesirable agronomic practices can implicitly be encouraged if programs do not make

Bill C-44 Helping Families in Need Act

), but the maximum number of combined weeks is 50. If the benefit period is extended under subsection 10(13), the maximum number of combined weeks equals the maximum number of weeks in the benefit period calculated under subsection 10(15) less two weeks. 15. Section 18 of the Act is renumbered

Human Resources committee  There is provision in regulations, not in legislation, that suggests that employers who need temporary foreign workers can hire them and pay them 15% less than the going rate in Canada. I'm not sure if that applies to all of them. But it doesn't seem to be helpful if the result

Canada-Panama Economic Growth and Prosperity Act   it when it comes to free trade agreements. However, when it comes to labour market adjustments, of course, all of that disappears. Then we pass legislation so that employers can pay 15% less to temporary foreign workers who we bring in to ensure the free marketplace analogy

Human Resources committee  . Those who may lose out are probably people who work over 15 days out of 30, but who do not work more than 5 days a week. In such cases, those people may end up with 10% or 15% less pay for a specific general holiday. Once again, we don't have the total number. It should be noted

Jobs and Growth, 2012  I do not know any more, Mr. Speaker, if it is in the bill, out of the bill, close to the bill. With regard to foreign workers, does he find that foreign workers accepting 15% less in wages compared to other Canadians is discriminatory with this type of formula?

Human Resources  Mr. Speaker, a new report suggests unscrupulous agencies are charging thousands of dollars to recruit lower wage, temporary foreign workers to work in B.C. coal mines. It is no wonder companies are turning to foreign workers when the Conservatives allow them to pay them 15% less

Employment  Mr. Speaker, what is clear is that Canadians cannot trust Conservatives. Companies are planning to hire as many as 2,000 temporary foreign workers to work in B.C. coal mines. Conservatives have encouraged more foreign workers by allowing companies to pay them 15% less than

National Defence  Mr. Speaker, let us be clear. Combat operations in Afghanistan for Canadian soldiers have ended. We do in fact have a very small number as of October 15, less than a half dozen, who are taking part in a long-standing tradition, which is exchanges with countries such as Great

Faster Removal of Foreign Criminals Act   to get into what the Conservatives attempted to do in terms of health care for refugees or the fact that they can bring in foreign workers and pay them 15% less. There are a whole lot of reasons why we have some serious concerns with what has been proposed, but we will support

Faster Removal of Foreign Criminals Act   employers to be proactive by making arranged employment offers and using the federal government to help businesses find quality overseas labour, not to cut costs as it appears the government is doing by offering 15% less to workers but to improve the quality of our workforce. If we

Faster Removal of Foreign Criminals Act   big business pay lower wages. This is not how we built our country and it will not be the way to build the economy of the future. The Conservatives have increased the number of temporary foreign workers by almost 200% while allowing employers to pay them 15% less than a Canadian

Employment   is obviously helping the unemployed in another country. The Conservatives have changed the rules to make it legal to pay temporary foreign workers up to 15% less than Canadian workers doing the same job. Is that their message to the unemployed, “Work for less or we will bring in someone