Temporary foreign workers are taking the place of locally-born workers in some sectors of Canada’s workforce, including accommodation and food services, business, building and other support services, and retail trade, a recent Bank of Canada report suggests.
Canada has experienced a surge in immigration since the COVID-19 pandemic that has mostly consisted of non-permanent residents who are now making up a large portion of the country’s workforce in low-skilled occupations, “replacing Canadian-born workers who moved out of these jobs,” the May 9 report says.
“Public data suggest that this surge in temporary immigration mostly reflects a sharp rise in the International Mobility Program work permits, which are generally granted without any requirement for labour market impact assessments, and a pick-up in international study permits,” says the report, which was first covered by Blacklock’s Reporter….