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Temporary foreign workers plant strawberries on a farm in Mirabel, Que., in 2020.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre made political headway calling for the Temporary Foreign Worker Program to be scrapped, making Prime Minister Mark Carney look like he was caught in the headlights.

At a cabinet retreat on Sept. 3, Mr. Carney told reporters that businesses are always telling him they need access to workers, and added, “We must keep this program.” A week later, he was emphasizing that there will be reforms to the program.

This shouldn’t be so hard.

Over the years, a program that was supposed to about dealing with the exceptions ended up as one that made exceptions the rule. That has to be fixed.

The TFW program was supposed to be there for relatively rare cases when a Cana

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