埃比：臨時外國工人計劃應“大幅改革或取消”
Sept 4, 2025, Temporary foreign worker program should be 'reformed significantly or cancelled’: Eby
https://globalnews.ca/news/11393208/eby-temporary-foreign-worker/
西蒙·利特爾和理查德·祖斯曼 環球新聞 2025年9月4日
省長大衛·埃比是最新一位呼籲聯邦政府取消臨時外國工人計劃的人士。他表示，該計劃導致年輕人就業困難。理查德·祖斯曼將為您帶來詳情。
不列顛哥倫比亞省省長大衛·埃比呼籲聯邦政府對臨時外國工人（TFW）計劃進行重大改革，或徹底廢除該計劃。
埃比周四發表了上述言論，這是他夏季休假一個月後首次公開露麵。
“臨時外國工人計劃行不通。應該取消或進行大幅改革，”埃比說道。
“在不列顛哥倫比亞省，我們看到年輕人的失業率高得令人無法接受，這與國際學生簽證計劃和臨時外國工人計劃都有關。”
波利耶夫雷希望取消臨時外國工人計劃。
埃比還提到了有關欺詐性出售勞動力市場影響評估的指控。這些文件表明，在招聘外國工人時，加拿大工人無法勝任他們提供的工作。
埃比表示，對該計劃的任何改革都必須確保農民和其他合法需要臨時勞動力的行業得到照顧。
埃比表示：“不列顛哥倫比亞省願意召集對此問題感興趣的各省，就加拿大的移民問題及其對關鍵基礎設施的影響進行嚴肅、成熟的對話。”
周四早些時候，加拿大統計局發布的數據顯示，青年失業率正在驚人地上升，總體青年失業率將從2022年的10%上升到2025年中期的14%。
報告指出，近五分之一的加拿大青少年想要工作，但卻找不到工作。
這位新民主黨省長的言論讓他在這個問題上與聯邦保守黨反對黨領袖皮埃爾·波利耶夫（Pierre Poilievre）意外地結成了盟友。
周三，波利耶夫還呼籲終止這項“壓低工資、竊取機會”的計劃，並以一項獨立的農業勞動力計劃取而代之。
在美國關稅威脅下，卑詩省鋼鐵工人工會力推外國工人計劃改革
然而，卑詩省保守黨反對黨領袖約翰·魯斯塔德（John Rustad）警告稱，取消臨時外國工人計劃將摧毀該省的旅遊業和農業產業。
他表示，卑詩省應該自行處理此事。
“渥太華破壞了移民體係，我們需要一種卑詩省自主的方案，這樣我們才能掌控移民事務。”
Eby 的言論也引發了加拿大獨立企業聯合會 (CFIB) 的強烈反對，該聯合會稱其言論“嚴重誤導，危及其他加拿大人的就業”。
CFIB 不列顛哥倫比亞省立法事務主管 Ryan Mitton 表示，對該計劃進行調整合情合理，但取消該計劃則將政治因素置於明智政策之上。
Mitton 表示：“對於不列顛哥倫比亞省的許多小型企業，尤其是在農村和偏遠地區的小型企業來說，臨時外籍勞工 (TFW) 計劃是維持運營、保障加拿大就業崗位並填補本地工人空缺的最後手段。”
加拿大總理 Mark Carney 表示，渥太華將審查該計劃，但相信該計劃仍將發揮作用。
聯邦數據顯示，加拿大設定了今年通過臨時外籍勞工計劃接納 82,000 名新移民的目標。
去年，聯邦政府宣布將對該計劃進行限製，並計劃到明年將加拿大臨時外籍勞工 (TFW) 的比例從占總人口的 6.5% 降至 5% 以下。
這些變化將拒絕失業率超過6%地區的低薪臨時外籍勞工（TFW）申請，將TFW的最長就業期限從兩年縮短至一年，並將企業可從低薪勞工流中雇傭的員工數量限製在其員工總數的10%。
卑詩省省長Eby告訴聯邦政府，應取消或改革臨時外籍勞工計劃。
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/dump-or-reform-temporary-foreign-worker-program-david-eby-says
David Eby此前也發表了類似的言論，保守黨領袖Pierre Poilievre將加拿大年輕人的就業危機歸咎於該計劃。
Wolfgang Depner 2025年9月4日
卑詩省2025年9月4日，星期四，不列顛哥倫比亞省省長戴維·埃比在素裏市舉行的新聞發布會上表示。
維多利亞——不列顛哥倫比亞省省長戴維·埃比表示，臨時外國工人計劃應該“取消或進行重大改革”，因為該省的移民製度不應該與高青年失業率掛鉤，同時又給無家可歸者收容所和食物銀行帶來壓力。
埃比周四表示，該省麵臨“重大財政阻力”的一個原因是年輕人“失業率很高”，他認為這與臨時外國工人計劃和移民政策有關。
工人計劃和國際學生計劃。
“我們不能擁有一個超越我們建設學校和住房能力的移民體係，也不能擁有一個導致高失業率的移民計劃，”埃比周四在不列顛哥倫比亞省素裏市的一所學校發表了無關聲明後表示。
他的言論發表於保守黨領袖皮埃爾·波利耶夫雷（Pierre Poilievre）發表類似言論的一天後，後者將該計劃歸咎於加拿大年輕人的就業危機，並呼籲廢除該計劃。
省長表示，不列顛哥倫比亞省願意“召集對此問題感興趣的各省”，就加拿大移民及其對住房和學校等關鍵基礎設施的影響進行“嚴肅、成熟”的對話。
加拿大就業和社會發展部表示，臨時外國工人計劃允許加拿大雇主在缺乏合格加拿大人時雇用外國工人來填補臨時職位。
加拿大獨立企業聯合會 (Canadian Federation of Independent Businesss) 表示，廢除該計劃的呼聲“極其誤導”，它非但不能為加拿大人提供就業機會，反而可能危及加拿大人的工作。
該聯合會不列顛哥倫比亞省立法事務主任 Ryan Mitton 在一份聲明中表示，臨時外國工人計劃是該省許多小型企業，尤其是農村和偏遠地區的“維持生計的最後手段”。
Poilievre 呼籲自由黨關閉臨時外國工人計劃
渥太華表示，2025 年上半年進入加拿大的外國學生和工人數量將減少。
Mitton 表示：“如果沒有該計劃，不列顛哥倫比亞省的許多餐館、農場和護理機構將會倒閉，這也會導致加拿大工人失業。”
他表示，可以對該計劃進行調整，“但完全取消它會將政治置於合理的政策之上。”
加拿大統計局的數據顯示，不列顛哥倫比亞省7月份15至24歲青年失業率為12.1%，低於加拿大的14.6%。
代表該省100多個食品救濟組織的BC省食品銀行發布的一份2024年報告發現，食品銀行的移民或難民客戶數量以及女性和少數族裔社區的人數“顯著增加”。
報告稱，26%的食品銀行用戶自認為是移民或難民，在溫哥華沿海地區，這一比例上升至39%。報告並未說明用戶是否是臨時外國工人。
Poilievre周三表示，取消臨時外國工人計劃應包括難以填補的農業崗位的例外情況，而Eby則表示，政府必須解決“農民和其他合法需要臨時勞動力的人的擔憂”。
他稱這是一個聯邦政府應該考慮的“非常及時的問題”。
加拿大總理馬克·卡尼周三表示，他的政府將審查該計劃，但也補充說該計劃“應發揮作用”。
埃比表示，卡尼政府已采取“一些良好措施來控製該計劃的過度行為”，但渥太華仍需付出更多努力。
加拿大統計局稱，2011年加拿大有35.6萬名臨時外國工人，到2021年將增至84.5萬名。
加拿大設定了今年新增8.2萬名臨時外國工人的目標。
不列顛哥倫比亞省保守黨領袖約翰·魯斯塔德表示，農業和惠斯勒等旅遊勝地等行業“迫切需要”臨時外國工人。“然而，我清楚地認識到，移民體係已經崩潰，而且多年來一直被渥太華破壞，”他說道。
他補充道，不列顛哥倫比亞省應該像魁北克省一樣，掌控移民政策，製定“不列顛哥倫比亞省解決方案”。
Temporary foreign worker program should be ‘reformed significantly or cancelled’: Eby
https://globalnews.ca/news/11393208/eby-temporary-foreign-worker/
By Simon Little & Richard Zussman Global News September 4, 2025
Premier David Eby is the latest voice calling on the federal government to get rid of the temporary foreign workers program. He says young people are struggling to gain employment because of the program. Richard Zussman has the details.
British Columbia Premier David Eby is calling on the federal government to make major changes to the temporary foreign worker (TFW) program — or to scrap it outright.
Eby made the comments Thursday, at his first public appearance after a month break over the summer.
“The temporary foreign worker program is not working. It should be cancelled or significantly reformed,” Eby said.
“Here in British Columbia, we see an unacceptably high level of unemployment among young people, which has been linked both to the international student visa program as well as the temporary foreign worker program.”
Poilievre wants temporary foreign worker program scrapped
Eby also cited allegations of the fraudulent sale of labour market impact assessments, documents that show a Canadian worker isn’t available for the job they’re offering when hiring a foreign worker.
Any reform of the program must ensure that farmers and other sectors that legitimately need temporary labour are accommodated, Eby said.
“British Columbia is willing to convene provinces that are interested in this issue, to have a serious, grown-up conversation about immigration in Canada, the impact that it’s having on critical infrastructure,” Eby said.
Earlier Thursday, Statistics Canada published data showing an alarming rise in youth unemployment, with overall youth unemployment rising from 10 per cent in 2022 to 14 per cent in mid-2025.
Nearly one in five Canadian teens want to work but cannot find any jobs, the report noted.
The NDP premier’s comments have made him an unlikely ally with federal Conservative Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre on the issue.
On Wednesday, Poilievre also called for an end to the “wage-suppressing, opportunity-stealing program,” and for its replacement with a separate standalone program for agricultural labour.
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BC Conservative Opposition Leader John Rustad, however, warned that scrapping the temporary foreign worker program would crush the province’s tourism and agriculture industries.
The province, he said, should take the matter into its own hands.
“The immigration system was broken by Ottawa and we need a made in B.C. approach so we can take over immigration.”
Eby’s comments also drew backlash from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, which said they were “deeply misguided and put other Canadians’ jobs at risk.”
CFIB director of legislative affairs for B.C. Ryan Mitton said adjustments to the program made sense, but cancelling it put politics before smart policy.
“For many small businesses in B.C., especially in rural and remote areas, the TFW Program is a last resort that keeps the doors open, protects Canadian jobs and fills gaps where no local workers are available,” Mitton said.
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Ottawa will review the program, but believes it still has a role to play.
Federal data shows Canada set a target to admit 82,000 new arrivals through the temporary foreign worker program this year.
Last year, the federal government announced it was introducing restrictions to the program, and aims to cut the portion of TFWs in Canada from 6.5 per cent of the population to under five per cent by next year.
The changes will reject low-wage TFW applications in regions where unemployment exceeds six per cent, reduce the maximum duration of TFW employment from two years to one, and cap the number of employees businesses can draw from the low-wage stream at 10 per cent of their workforce.
Dump or reform temporary foreign worker program, B.C. premier Eby tells feds
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/dump-or-reform-temporary-foreign-worker-program-david-eby-says
David Eby's remarks come after similar comments from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, who blamed the program for an employment crisis among young Canadians
Wolfgang Depner Sep 04, 2025
B.C. Premier David Eby at a news conference at in Surrey, B.C., on Thursday, September 4, 2025.
VICTORIA — British Columbia Premier David Eby said the temporary foreign worker program should “be cancelled or significantly reformed” because the province can’t have an immigration system that’s linked to high youth unemployment, while putting pressure on homeless shelters and food banks.
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Eby said Thursday that one reason the province is facing “significant fiscal headwinds” is because of “very high unemployment rates” among young people, which he linked to both the temporary foreign worker program and the international student program.
“We can’t have an immigration system that outpaces our ability to build schools, and housing, and we can’t have an immigration program that results in high unemployment,” Eby said Thursday after making an unrelated announcement at a school in Surrey, B.C.
His remarks came a day after similar comments from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, who blamed the program for an employment crisis among young Canadians and called for it to be scrapped.
The premier said B.C. was willing to “convene provinces that are interested in this issue” to have a “serious, grown-up” conversation about immigration in Canada and its impact on critical infrastructure, such as housing and schools.
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Employment and Social Development Canada says the temporary foreign worker program allows Canadian employers to hire foreign workers to fill temporary jobs when qualified Canadians are not available.
The Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses said the calls to scrap the program are “deeply misguided,” and instead of putting Canadians in jobs, they could put the jobs of Canadians at risk.
“Without the program, many B.C. restaurants, farms and care providers would shut down, which would displace Canadian workers as well,” Mitton said.
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He said adjustments to the program could be made, “but cancelling it altogether puts politics ahead of sensible policy.”
B.C.’s youth unemployment rate for people aged 15 to 24 was 12.1 per cent in July, below the Canadian rate of 14.6 per cent, Statistics Canada figures show.
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A 2024 report by Food Banks BC, which represents more than 100 food relief organizations in the province, found a “significant increase” in the number of immigrant or refugee clients to the food banks, as well as women and those in racialized communities.
The report said 26 per cent of food bank users identified as immigrants or refugees with the figure rising to 39 per cent in the Vancouver coastal region. The report did not identify whether users were temporary foreign workers.
Poilievre said Wednesday that cancellation of the temporary foreign worker program should include exceptions for difficult-to-fill agricultural jobs, while Eby said the government must address the “concerns of farmers and others” that “legitimately” need temporary labour.
He called it a “very timely issue” for the federal government to consider.
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday that his government would review the program but also added that it “has a role to play.”
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Eby said Carney’s government has taken “some good steps to rein in the excesses” of the program but Ottawa needs to do more.
Statistics Canada says there were 356,000 temporary foreign workers in Canada in 2011, rising to 845,000 in 2021.
Canada set a target to admit 82,000 new temporary foreign workers this year.
Conservative Party of BC Leader John Rustad said sectors like agriculture and tourist destinations like Whistler are in “desperate need” of temporary foreign workers. “However, it is clear in my mind that the immigration system is broken, and has been broken for a number of years by Ottawa,” he said.
British Columbia, like Quebec, should take control of immigration to develop a “made-in-BC solution,” he added.
