Winnipeg Free Press: Kitchen consternation Rural restaurants brace for impact of federal Temporary Foreign Worker program changes

More than half of Manitoba respondents to a recent Angus Reid survey said they thought Canada accepted too many temporary foreign workers. Three-quarters reported believing the workers were bad for Canada’s housing situation.

“Immigrants and temporary workers … have become convenient scapegoats for the failure of our provinces,” said Lori Wilkinson, a University of Manitoba sociology professor and a Canada Research Chair in migration futures. “Our housing crisis has gone on for … years.”

The scaling back of Canada’s international student intake could also negatively affect businesses that rely on immigration, Wilkinson added.

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