Canadian Immigration Year In Review Part 2: Temporary Residence

The plight of Canada's temporary foreign workers and the businesses that employ them has been a regular agenda item of the federal government throughout 2016.

The Temporary Foreign Worker Program inherited by the Liberals from the Conservatives appeared to frustrate everyone – from workers, to employers and human rights campaigners.

Throughout the year, Immigration Minister John McCallum and his team at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada have been assessing what changes were needed to make the program more suited for its purpose.

The aim was to achieve the difficult balancing act of fulfilling the needs of businesses while not giving away jobs to foreign workers brought in from abroad that Canadians could be hired to fill.