Little-known program dominates Canada’s massive guest-worker scheme – Prince George Post
Sep 12, 2024
Douglas Todd: A labour leader is frustrated Canadians know almost nothing about the vast International Mobility Program (IMP). He’s afraid bosses want it that way.
Union leader Mark Olsen is frustrated Canadians know almost nothing about the International Mobility Program. And he’s afraid company bosses want it that way.
The program is the vast federal guest worker program that now brings by far the most newcomers into Canada — with more than one million in the country now.
It’s also the program that Olsen believes makes it most easy for employers to exploit guest workers, which in turn harms Canadian workers.
As the western manager of the Laborers International Union of North America, Olsen said that the International Mobility Program (IMP) is drawing more than four times as many guest workers as the more discussed Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP).
