Patty Hajdu said there’s a correlation between the decreasing number of LMIA applications and those who are trying to get LMIAs for selling them on the market. Photo by OFFICE OF PATTY HAJDU/JENNIFER KOZELJ

The illegal sale of jobs to foreigners hoping to work in Canada has declined in the past year, Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu says, due to increasing enforcement and policy changes to the temporary foreign worker program (TFWP).

“I have instructed my officials to make sure that we crack down on fraud in the system in every way,” she said. “Whether it’s consultants that are posting jobs that don’t exist, whether it’s consultants that are promising foreign workers opportunities in a Canadian labour market that doesn’t exist, all of these things need to be taken seriously and cracked

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