OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on the federal government to shut down the temporary foreign worker program, saying it is to blame for rising youth unemployment.

Poilievre appeared on Wednesday alongside Calgary MP Michelle Rempel Garner, his party’s immigration critic, who in recent weeks has begun naming major restaurant and retail businesses, from Canadian Tire to Booster Juice and Subway, on social media for posting jobs open to temporary foreign workers.

Jobs like these should be going to Canadian youth, Poilievre said at his announcement in Mississauga, Ont., pointing to data showing the Canadian unemployment rate among youth aged 15 to 24 has reached its highest since 2010, excluding the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The Liberals have to answer,

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