VICTORIA — British Columbia Premier David Eby says the temporary foreign worker program should “be cancelled or significantly reformed” because the province can’t have an immigration system that takes young people’s jobs, while filling up homeless shelters and food banks.

Eby says one reason B.C. is facing “significant fiscal headwinds” is because of “very high unemployment rates” among young people, linked to both the temporary foreign worker program and the international student program.

He says B.C. is willing to “convene provinces that are interested in this issue” to have a “serious, grown-up” conversation about immigration in Canada and its impact on critical infrastructure, such as housing and schools.

Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has also said Canada should cance

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