May 19, 2017 – Temporary foreign workers have been brought into Canada to do jobs there may have been Canadians available for, a damning audit of the program has concluded.

Auditor-General Michael Ferguson says not enough was done to ensure genuine labour shortages existed, and that 'employers hired temporary foreign workers only as a last resort'.

Furthermore, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) did not rigorously investigate potential abuse of the program through on-site inspections and face-to-face interviews.

ESDC also failed to measure the impact of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) on Canada's labour market.

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