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Premier David Eby said the national temporary foreign worker program must be changed or cancelled to protect Canadian jobs and stop immigrants from overburdening services such as food banks and homeless shelters.

"The temporary foreign worker program is not working," he said. "It should be cancelled or significantly reformed."

In remarks at an unrelated news conference in Surrey on Thursday, Sept. 4, Eby blamed Ottawa for allowing a program to continue to put "strains" on the provincial budget, saying the majority of people using food banks have been in the country for less than two years and homeless shelters are filling up with new arrivals instead of people already living on the streets.

"It's time for a serious and adult conversation about address

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