Temporary residency in Canada

who they're visualizing.

It's also worthwhile for non-Canadians to understand we have a major, and I'd say controversial, program called the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, where people, frankly, large part Filipinos, who I've met a million of them, a huge population in Athabasca who are amazing folks, but they come in on temporary work visas, and these are highly contingent, very poorly treated people.

who are staffing all sorts of businesses, particularly, let's say, meatpacking or Tim Hortons is controversial over it.

And there is a constant fight over this because there is the sort of nativist, well, Canadians should have that job.

It must be a rough day on opposition benches when they take aim at Canada's immigration system and TFWs in ways that they know are incorrect.

They know that the Temporary Foreign Worker Program has its uses down 50% in the last year and makes up less than 1% of our workforce.

But the changes that this government introduced are not about that.

Yeah, they don't talk about the International Mobility Program.

To use your example, and it's a good one, of immigration, many of the issues that were of concern to the government of Alberta, to Albertans around getting control of our immigration system, again, ensuring that, for example, the number of asylum seekers has come down very significantly, foreign students reduced very considerably.

Temporary Foreign Worker Program again.

These are issues that we saw in the referendum campaign and have discussed with the government of Alberta.

We have taken concrete and decisive steps that we think show that we can work with provincial and territorial governments.