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Canadian Meat Council Hopes for Adoption of Key Recommended Changes to Temporary Foreign Worker Program
Ron Davidson - Canadian Meat Council

Farmscape for October 18, 2016

The Canadian Meat Council says many of the changes recommended in a Parliamentary Committee report on Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program would be very helpful to the red meat industry.
The Federal Government is now reviewing a House of Commons Parliamentary Committee Report on Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program, released in mid-September, which makes 21 recommendations and is expected to respond in early January.
Ron Davidson, the Director of International Trade, Government and Media Relations with the Canadian Meat Council, says many of the recommendations, if applied could be very helpful to the industry.

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For example they have spoken about increasing the speed and efficiency with which labor market impact assessments are undertaken.
That would be very helpful.
They have recommended a trusted employer program.
This is an employer who has used the program in previous years and has demonstrated the ability or the willingness to follow the program requirements.
There's a potential to permit minor modifications so, if you want to give a temporary foreign worker raise, you can do that.
It's odd that we are being prevented from providing raises to foreign workers when they're in country.
That did not make a lot of sense.
They've also recommended that the program have more specific application to reflect the realities market needs in particular sectors and regions.
That's precisely what we're talking about.
We're emphasizing in particular abattoirs in rural environments and looking at the one shot fits all just isn't living in reality.
There's a reference to expanding the definition of primary agriculture.
If primary agriculture is expanded to include primary processing, that would be helpful to the meat industry.

Davidson acknowledges there are recommendations that could be problematic, depending on their interpretation, but he says for the most part these recommendations look pretty positive.
For Farmscape.Ca, I'm Bruce Cochrane.


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