In a surprise statement, Premier David Eby called for the end of Canada's temporary foreign worker (TFW) program — blaming Ottawa's flawed immigration policies for filling up homeless shelters and food banks.

"The temporary foreign worker program is not working. It should be cancelled or significantly reformed," Eby said during an unrelated announcement in Surrey, B.C., Thursday.

"We can't have an immigration system that fills up our homeless shelters and our food banks. 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 youth unemployment." It's a rare show of unity between Eby, of the B.C. NDP, and federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, who on Wednesday called for the program t

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