On Friday afternoon, which is the unofficial time for governments everywhere to publish information they hope no one will pay much attention to, Canada’s federal government came out with some news: It has decided to again loosen restrictions on the hiring of low-wage temporary foreign workers.
The government didn’t frame it quite like that, of course. Instead, it announced what it called “targeted reforms” to “respond to labour market needs,” which is a much more polite way of saying it will facilitate the continuing suppression of Canadian wages by allowing employers to hire from abroad, rather than improve worker incentives domestically.
