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Last week, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre called for a decisive end to the temporary foreign worker (TFW) program, declaring “it’s time for Canadian jobs for Canadian workers.”

This is a bit of a shift for Poilievre. During the April federal election, he had promised only to reduce the number of TFWs approved in Canada, and to weed out the more obvious cases of immigration fraud.

But with their “end the temporary foreign worker program” tack, the Conservatives are tapping into an obvious well of public discontent over the program. Mere hours after his call to end all temporary foreign worker permits, Poilievre was joined by the NDP premier of B.C., David Eby, who said the program had to be “cancelled or significantly reformed.”

If public sentiment is turning against the

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