埃比：临时外国工人计划应“大幅改革或取消”
Sept 4, 2025, Temporary foreign worker program should be 'reformed significantly or cancelled’: Eby
https://globalnews.ca/news/11393208/eby-temporary-foreign-worker/
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省长大卫·埃比是最新一位呼吁联邦政府取消临时外国工人计划的人士。他表示，该计划导致年轻人就业困难。理查德·祖斯曼将为您带来详情。
不列颠哥伦比亚省省长大卫·埃比呼吁联邦政府对临时外国工人（TFW）计划进行重大改革，或彻底废除该计划。
埃比周四发表了上述言论，这是他夏季休假一个月后首次公开露面。
“临时外国工人计划行不通。应该取消或进行大幅改革，”埃比说道。
“在不列颠哥伦比亚省，我们看到年轻人的失业率高得令人无法接受，这与国际学生签证计划和临时外国工人计划都有关。”
波利耶夫雷希望取消临时外国工人计划。
埃比还提到了有关欺诈性出售劳动力市场影响评估的指控。这些文件表明，在招聘外国工人时，加拿大工人无法胜任他们提供的工作。
埃比表示，对该计划的任何改革都必须确保农民和其他合法需要临时劳动力的行业得到照顾。
埃比表示：“不列颠哥伦比亚省愿意召集对此问题感兴趣的各省，就加拿大的移民问题及其对关键基础设施的影响进行严肃、成熟的对话。”
周四早些时候，加拿大统计局发布的数据显示，青年失业率正在惊人地上升，总体青年失业率将从2022年的10%上升到2025年中期的14%。
报告指出，近五分之一的加拿大青少年想要工作，但却找不到工作。
这位新民主党省长的言论让他在这个问题上与联邦保守党反对党领袖皮埃尔·波利耶夫（Pierre Poilievre）意外地结成了盟友。
周三，波利耶夫还呼吁终止这项“压低工资、窃取机会”的计划，并以一项独立的农业劳动力计划取而代之。
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然而，卑诗省保守党反对党领袖约翰·鲁斯塔德（John Rustad）警告称，取消临时外国工人计划将摧毁该省的旅游业和农业产业。
他表示，卑诗省应该自行处理此事。
“渥太华破坏了移民体系，我们需要一种卑诗省自主的方案，这样我们才能掌控移民事务。”
Eby 的言论也引发了加拿大独立企业联合会 (CFIB) 的强烈反对，该联合会称其言论“严重误导，危及其他加拿大人的就业”。
CFIB 不列颠哥伦比亚省立法事务主管 Ryan Mitton 表示，对该计划进行调整合情合理，但取消该计划则将政治因素置于明智政策之上。
Mitton 表示：“对于不列颠哥伦比亚省的许多小型企业，尤其是在农村和偏远地区的小型企业来说，临时外籍劳工 (TFW) 计划是维持运营、保障加拿大就业岗位并填补本地工人空缺的最后手段。”
加拿大总理 Mark Carney 表示，渥太华将审查该计划，但相信该计划仍将发挥作用。
联邦数据显示，加拿大设定了今年通过临时外籍劳工计划接纳 82,000 名新移民的目标。
去年，联邦政府宣布将对该计划进行限制，并计划到明年将加拿大临时外籍劳工 (TFW) 的比例从占总人口的 6.5% 降至 5% 以下。
这些变化将拒绝失业率超过6%地区的低薪临时外籍劳工（TFW）申请，将TFW的最长就业期限从两年缩短至一年，并将企业可从低薪劳工流中雇佣的员工数量限制在其员工总数的10%。
卑诗省省长Eby告诉联邦政府，应取消或改革临时外籍劳工计划。
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/dump-or-reform-temporary-foreign-worker-program-david-eby-says
David Eby此前也发表了类似的言论，保守党领袖Pierre Poilievre将加拿大年轻人的就业危机归咎于该计划。
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卑诗省2025年9月4日，星期四，不列颠哥伦比亚省省长戴维·埃比在素里市举行的新闻发布会上表示。
维多利亚——不列颠哥伦比亚省省长戴维·埃比表示，临时外国工人计划应该“取消或进行重大改革”，因为该省的移民制度不应该与高青年失业率挂钩，同时又给无家可归者收容所和食物银行带来压力。
埃比周四表示，该省面临“重大财政阻力”的一个原因是年轻人“失业率很高”，他认为这与临时外国工人计划和移民政策有关。
工人计划和国际学生计划。
“我们不能拥有一个超越我们建设学校和住房能力的移民体系，也不能拥有一个导致高失业率的移民计划，”埃比周四在不列颠哥伦比亚省素里市的一所学校发表了无关声明后表示。
他的言论发表于保守党领袖皮埃尔·波利耶夫雷（Pierre Poilievre）发表类似言论的一天后，后者将该计划归咎于加拿大年轻人的就业危机，并呼吁废除该计划。
省长表示，不列颠哥伦比亚省愿意“召集对此问题感兴趣的各省”，就加拿大移民及其对住房和学校等关键基础设施的影响进行“严肃、成熟”的对话。
加拿大就业和社会发展部表示，临时外国工人计划允许加拿大雇主在缺乏合格加拿大人时雇用外国工人来填补临时职位。
加拿大独立企业联合会 (Canadian Federation of Independent Businesss) 表示，废除该计划的呼声“极其误导”，它非但不能为加拿大人提供就业机会，反而可能危及加拿大人的工作。
该联合会不列颠哥伦比亚省立法事务主任 Ryan Mitton 在一份声明中表示，临时外国工人计划是该省许多小型企业，尤其是农村和偏远地区的“维持生计的最后手段”。
Poilievre 呼吁自由党关闭临时外国工人计划
渥太华表示，2025 年上半年进入加拿大的外国学生和工人数量将减少。
Mitton 表示：“如果没有该计划，不列颠哥伦比亚省的许多餐馆、农场和护理机构将会倒闭，这也会导致加拿大工人失业。”
他表示，可以对该计划进行调整，“但完全取消它会将政治置于合理的政策之上。”
加拿大统计局的数据显示，不列颠哥伦比亚省7月份15至24岁青年失业率为12.1%，低于加拿大的14.6%。
代表该省100多个食品救济组织的BC省食品银行发布的一份2024年报告发现，食品银行的移民或难民客户数量以及女性和少数族裔社区的人数“显著增加”。
报告称，26%的食品银行用户自认为是移民或难民，在温哥华沿海地区，这一比例上升至39%。报告并未说明用户是否是临时外国工人。
Poilievre周三表示，取消临时外国工人计划应包括难以填补的农业岗位的例外情况，而Eby则表示，政府必须解决“农民和其他合法需要临时劳动力的人的担忧”。
他称这是一个联邦政府应该考虑的“非常及时的问题”。
加拿大总理马克·卡尼周三表示，他的政府将审查该计划，但也补充说该计划“应发挥作用”。
埃比表示，卡尼政府已采取“一些良好措施来控制该计划的过度行为”，但渥太华仍需付出更多努力。
加拿大统计局称，2011年加拿大有35.6万名临时外国工人，到2021年将增至84.5万名。
加拿大设定了今年新增8.2万名临时外国工人的目标。
不列颠哥伦比亚省保守党领袖约翰·鲁斯塔德表示，农业和惠斯勒等旅游胜地等行业“迫切需要”临时外国工人。“然而，我清楚地认识到，移民体系已经崩溃，而且多年来一直被渥太华破坏，”他说道。
他补充道，不列颠哥伦比亚省应该像魁北克省一样，掌控移民政策，制定“不列颠哥伦比亚省解决方案”。
Temporary foreign worker program should be ‘reformed significantly or cancelled’: Eby
https://globalnews.ca/news/11393208/eby-temporary-foreign-worker/
By Simon Little & Richard Zussman Global News September 4, 2025
Premier David Eby is the latest voice calling on the federal government to get rid of the temporary foreign workers program. He says young people are struggling to gain employment because of the program. Richard Zussman has the details.
British Columbia Premier David Eby is calling on the federal government to make major changes to the temporary foreign worker (TFW) program — or to scrap it outright.
Eby made the comments Thursday, at his first public appearance after a month break over the summer.
“The temporary foreign worker program is not working. It should be cancelled or significantly reformed,” Eby said.
“Here in British Columbia, we see an unacceptably high level of unemployment among young people, which has been linked both to the international student visa program as well as the temporary foreign worker program.”
Poilievre wants temporary foreign worker program scrapped
Eby also cited allegations of the fraudulent sale of labour market impact assessments, documents that show a Canadian worker isn’t available for the job they’re offering when hiring a foreign worker.
Any reform of the program must ensure that farmers and other sectors that legitimately need temporary labour are accommodated, Eby said.
“British Columbia is willing to convene provinces that are interested in this issue, to have a serious, grown-up conversation about immigration in Canada, the impact that it’s having on critical infrastructure,” Eby said.
Earlier Thursday, Statistics Canada published data showing an alarming rise in youth unemployment, with overall youth unemployment rising from 10 per cent in 2022 to 14 per cent in mid-2025.
Nearly one in five Canadian teens want to work but cannot find any jobs, the report noted.
The NDP premier’s comments have made him an unlikely ally with federal Conservative Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre on the issue.
On Wednesday, Poilievre also called for an end to the “wage-suppressing, opportunity-stealing program,” and for its replacement with a separate standalone program for agricultural labour.
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BC Conservative Opposition Leader John Rustad, however, warned that scrapping the temporary foreign worker program would crush the province’s tourism and agriculture industries.
The province, he said, should take the matter into its own hands.
“The immigration system was broken by Ottawa and we need a made in B.C. approach so we can take over immigration.”
Eby’s comments also drew backlash from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, which said they were “deeply misguided and put other Canadians’ jobs at risk.”
CFIB director of legislative affairs for B.C. Ryan Mitton said adjustments to the program made sense, but cancelling it put politics before smart policy.
“For many small businesses in B.C., especially in rural and remote areas, the TFW Program is a last resort that keeps the doors open, protects Canadian jobs and fills gaps where no local workers are available,” Mitton said.
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Ottawa will review the program, but believes it still has a role to play.
Federal data shows Canada set a target to admit 82,000 new arrivals through the temporary foreign worker program this year.
Last year, the federal government announced it was introducing restrictions to the program, and aims to cut the portion of TFWs in Canada from 6.5 per cent of the population to under five per cent by next year.
The changes will reject low-wage TFW applications in regions where unemployment exceeds six per cent, reduce the maximum duration of TFW employment from two years to one, and cap the number of employees businesses can draw from the low-wage stream at 10 per cent of their workforce.
Dump or reform temporary foreign worker program, B.C. premier Eby tells feds
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/dump-or-reform-temporary-foreign-worker-program-david-eby-says
David Eby's remarks come after similar comments from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, who blamed the program for an employment crisis among young Canadians
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B.C. Premier David Eby at a news conference at in Surrey, B.C., on Thursday, September 4, 2025.
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.
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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.C.
His remarks came a day after similar comments from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, who blamed the program for an employment crisis among young Canadians and called for it to be scrapped.
The premier said B.C. was willing to “convene provinces that are interested in this issue” to have a “serious, grown-up” conversation about immigration in Canada and its impact on critical infrastructure, such as housing and schools.
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Employment and Social Development Canada says the temporary foreign worker program allows Canadian employers to hire foreign workers to fill temporary jobs when qualified Canadians are not available.
The Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses said the calls to scrap the program are “deeply misguided,” and instead of putting Canadians in jobs, they could put the jobs of Canadians at risk.
“Without the program, many B.C. restaurants, farms and care providers would shut down, which would displace Canadian workers as well,” Mitton said.
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He said adjustments to the program could be made, “but cancelling it altogether puts politics ahead of sensible policy.”
B.C.’s youth unemployment rate for people aged 15 to 24 was 12.1 per cent in July, below the Canadian rate of 14.6 per cent, Statistics Canada figures show.
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A 2024 report by Food Banks BC, which represents more than 100 food relief organizations in the province, found a “significant increase” in the number of immigrant or refugee clients to the food banks, as well as women and those in racialized communities.
The report said 26 per cent of food bank users identified as immigrants or refugees with the figure rising to 39 per cent in the Vancouver coastal region. The report did not identify whether users were temporary foreign workers.
Poilievre said Wednesday that cancellation of the temporary foreign worker program should include exceptions for difficult-to-fill agricultural jobs, while Eby said the government must address the “concerns of farmers and others” that “legitimately” need temporary labour.
He called it a “very timely issue” for the federal government to consider.
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday that his government would review the program but also added that it “has a role to play.”
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Eby said Carney’s government has taken “some good steps to rein in the excesses” of the program but Ottawa needs to do more.
Statistics Canada says there were 356,000 temporary foreign workers in Canada in 2011, rising to 845,000 in 2021.
Canada set a target to admit 82,000 new temporary foreign workers this year.
Conservative Party of BC Leader John Rustad said sectors like agriculture and tourist destinations like Whistler are in “desperate need” of temporary foreign workers. “However, it is clear in my mind that the immigration system is broken, and has been broken for a number of years by Ottawa,” he said.
British Columbia, like Quebec, should take control of immigration to develop a “made-in-BC solution,” he added.
