Canada’s meat industry expressed its concerns that upcoming changes to the country’s temporary foreign worker program will not help the industry fill hundreds of vacant jobs. Controversy over the temporary foreign worker program has made it increasingly difficult for processing plants to hire enough staff to remain competitive, reports CTV News.
Ron Davidson, a spokesman for the Canadian Meat Council, said that problems with the program last year led to the government tightening the rules for the program. Siince then, it has been more difficult for meat plants to get applications to hire foreign workers.