Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre is pushing to scrap the temporary foreign worker program, but some business owners in the London area say ending the program outright is not the answer.

Canadian businesses in some sectors are currently eligible to hire foreign workers, if they can show that no Canadian citizen or permanent resident is willing or able to do the job.

The program peaked last year at around 190,000 work permit holders, but just over 33,000 new temporary foreign workers have arrived since January, after the federal government put new restrictions on the program.

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Poilievre called on Ottawa this week to axe the program entirely, saying

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