In Canada, temporary foreign workers have been increasingly filling vacancies in low-status occupations doing ‘dangerous, demanding, and dirty’ work.

Key Issues on Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada

• Alberta Disposable Workers: Temporary Foreign Workers in Alberta
  There are more than 20,000 people working in Alberta from all over the world, anywhwere from six months to two years. The province desperately needs these workers but some are finding their dream of a better life is more of a nightmare.
  http://www.cbc.ca/edmonton/features/disposableworkers/
  http://www.cbc.ca/edmonton/features/disposableworkers/MT/
   

• Temporary Foreign Workers -Alberta Disposable Workforce
  In 2006, for the first time in history, Alberta had more temporary foreign workers (TFWs) arriving in our province than permanent immigrants. There were 22,392 TFWs working in Alberta. Meanwhile only 20,717 immigrants were granted permanent resident status in the same year. The number of TFWs in Alberta has doubled since 2003 and tripled since 1997.
  http://www.afl.org/upload/AFLTFW.pdf
   

• Temporary Foreign Workers and Regional Labour Market Disparities in Canada
  This paper shows that some of the regional discrepancies in unemployment rates is due to increased availability of temporary foreign workers suggesting they are not priced correctly to avoid adverse effects on the Canadian labour market.
  http://riim.metropolis.net/Virtual Library/2009/WP009-05.pdf
   

• Low-skilled Temporary Foreign Workers to Canada
  http://www3.thestar.com/static/PDF/080315_foreign_workers.pdf
   

• Temporary worker programs: North America’s second class citizens
  http://www.yorku.ca/robarts/projects/canada-watch/obama/pdfs/Goldring.pdf