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Immigration minister to reform temporary foreign worker program to stamp out abuse after slavery claims

Posted on: November 8, 2023

Immigration Minister Marc Miller is planning reforms to Canada’s temporary foreign worker program to prevent exploitation of migrants under a system that ties their right to work in Canada to a single employer.

His intervention follows accusations from a United Nations special rapporteur that some temporary workers in Canada are “vulnerable to contemporary forms of slavery.”

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