Finance committee  For many years it has been the policy with regard to temporary foreign workers that Canadian employers must attempt to employ Canadians first. When they are unable to locate Canadian workers, then they make an application for labour market opinion at HRSDC, who makes the decision

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Finance committee  We need to make a distinction between provincial responsibilities for enforcing labour code violations; that's a provincial responsibility. With regard to employers respecting their undertakings, when they hire an employee under the temporary foreign workers program, the commitm

Finance committee  The ability of the immigration department is really with regard to our regulation of consultants. We've recently strengthened our legislative provisions with regard to unscrupulous consultants. Also, many provinces have provincial law with regard to whether or not employers can c

Finance committee  It is $550 per adult and I believe $125 per child.