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.

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.

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