Have you heard of the IMP？
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Summary
In 2024, over 1.9 million work permits were handed out through the International Mobility Program (IMP), compared to just 236,000 under the TFW program. That means the vast majority of so-called temporary workers are coming through this back door, and almost nobody is talking about it.
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What if I told you the Temporary Foreign Worker Program is only the tip of the iceberg?
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I'm happy to see Pierre Polyev and the Conservative Party finally talking about the Temporary Foreign Worker Program,
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but I am concerned about their silence on the International Mobility Program.
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The International Mobility Program, or IMP, is even bigger.
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In 2024, over 1.9 million work permits were handed out through the IMP,
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compared to just 236,000 under the TFW program.
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That means the vast majority of so-called temporary workers are coming through this back door,
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and almost nobody is talking about it what makes the imp so dangerous is that it doesn't require
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an lmia a labor market impact assessment that means employers don't have to prove canadians
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aren't available to do the job big business can just bring in foreign workers with no questions
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asked displacing canadians driving down wages and flooding the labor market the imp was sold
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as a way to handle things like trade agreements or youth exchanges but just like every other
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immigration policy it has exploded into a massive loophole quietly importing hundreds of thousands
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or even millions of cheap laborers into our country.
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It's the main engine of temporary foreign labor in Canada.
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If the CPC is serious about protecting Canadian jobs,
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they can't just abolish the temporary foreign worker program.
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We have to shut down the international mobility program too.