OTTAWA— Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on Mark Carney’s Liberals to ditch the federal government’s decades-old temporary foreign worker program, taking a harder stance against a program he’s previously said should be reduced, not axed outright.
The reason why, Poilievre said Wednesday, is because of worsening youth unemployment , rather than a Liberal-induced “immigration crisis” he has claimed has weakened both the economy and security of the country.
“The individual temporary foreign workers, the workers themselves, they are not bad people. They are not the problem. They are being taken advantage of by Liberal corporate leaders who want to use them to drive down wages,” Poilievre said at a news conference in Mississauga.
“We continue to support the dream of all im