Rarely a week goes by without a small or large Canadian company declaring how desperate it is to hire foreign guest workers.

The country’s “labour shortage” i s brutal, they say. Business survival is impossible without willing workers from offshore, complain the owners of hotels, fast-food restaurants, security firms, supermarket chains and construction companies.

While’s it’s true that in some cases Canadian corporations struggle to find workers willing to plod away for low wages, especially in the agricultural sector, there is also no doubt many of Canada’s roughly three million highly motivated foreign guest workers toil for lower wages and demand fewer benefits than domestic workers.

A revealing study by three Canadian economists explains exactly why foreign guest workers are pref

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