Nearly half of immigrants say temporary foreign workers fill the jobs Canadians don’t want: OMNI-Leger poll

Author(s): Burrati, G.

Date: 2025

Resource: CityNews.

A recent poll conducted by Leger exclusively for OMNI News found that 36 per cent of immigrants believe temporary foreign workers are taking jobs away from young people, while 47 per cent say the program helps fill jobs many Canadians don’t want to do.

Catherine Connelly, professor and business research chair at McMaster University, says there are many common misconceptions about the TFWP, but the program has changed significantly over the past few months, and many companies are no longer able to hire foreign workers for low-wage jobs.

According to the OMNI-Leger poll, a majority of newcomers think Ottawa should only allow temporary foreign workers in specific sectors of the economy or in areas where unemployment is low, but Connelly argues that finetuning the TFWP is not a realistic approach.

“Labour markets move much more quickly than the government can even hope to,” she explains. “It’s unlikely that the government would be able to keep up with those changes.”

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