Citizenship and Immigration   mean employers can now pay migrant workers 15% less than the average Canadian worker. Why is the government failing to protect migrant workers from abuse?

Citizenship and Immigration   workers have the same rights as all Canadians in that respect. She is wrong in characterizing the 15% rule. No employer can pay 15% less unless it is a skilled worker and Canadians are getting paid the same wage. Finally, I find it peculiar that the NDP and the Liberals opposed our

Jobs, Growth and Long-term Prosperity Act   in temporary foreign workers who, now for the first time, can be paid 15% less than the average wage. Economist Jim Stanford testified before the finance committee. He said: It is an enormous shortage of jobs, not a lack of workers and not a lack of work ethic, that explains the decline

Jobs, Growth and Long-Term Prosperity Act   is in Bill C-38 for temporary foreign workers? Under this bill, temporary foreign workers can be paid 15% less than other workers for the same work. This is just more of the same Conservative policy to put downward pressure on the incomes of Canadians and Quebeckers. Eugénie Depatie

Finance committee   temporary foreign workers 15% less. There's no credible economist who believes that this will not depress wages in Canada. Then we come to the EI provisions. They also will have the impact of depressing wages. The government would like to perpetuate the myth that somehow people aren't

Finance committee  . They owe these labour pimps part of their salary. Now you can pay them 15% less than Canadian wages. I know my question is a long one, Mr. Chairman, but frankly I'm horrified. This is my industry we're talking about here. It's destabilizing and driving down the wages. No fair

Citizenship and Immigration committee   that, over one million Canadians are out of work, and youth unemployment is at 14%. These changes will also allow employers to pay temporary foreign workers 15% less than the fair market wage. When you couple this with the restricted access to EI for Canadian workers who have followed

Business of Supply   about driving down wages. The Conservatives love free markets unless, of course, it is a labour market. One has to wonder though for whom they are doing this. Yes, these changes will help their friends in the tar sands hire temporary foreign workers who can now be paid 15% less

Act to Provide for the Continuation and Resumption of Rail Service Operations   all, they just facilitated bringing in, in a fast-tracked process, more foreign temporary workers who, they are saying, employers can pay 15% less. This is an abuse of those who come to work in this country. I believe that if they are good enough to work here they are also good

Pooled Registered Pension Plans Act  , but that is not unless they can earn more money. They cannot earn more money in the systems we have today, when the government is telling employers they can now bring people from other countries and ask them to work for 15% less than the people who are currently working in Canada. It makes no sense

Canadian Chinese Community   foreign labour and deny citizenship in this cruel way. Today, we bring in thousands of temporary foreign workers who will be allowed to make 15% less than Canadian workers. They will be denied family reunification and the right to stay in Canada. As the official opposition, New

Jobs, Growth and Long-Term Prosperity Act   account for about 30% of all net new paid employment? This is before the changes that the government will bring in under the budget that will allow temporary foreign workers to be brought in on 10 days notice and be paid 15% less than the so-called going wage, which will drop as we get

Natural Resources committee   they can pay them as much as 15% less than the going rate for Canadian workers.

Jobs, Growth and Long-term Prosperity Act   month's announcement that changes to the temporary foreign worker program will now allow employers to pay highly skilled migrant workers 15% less than the average local wage, the government's agenda is thrown into stark relief. The Conservatives are absolutely determined to interfere

Jobs, Growth and Long-term Prosperity Act  , if the majority of Canadians are receiving 15% less than the average wages, then immigrants can receive that as well so that they are not paid more than Canadian workers.