True Patriot Love - June 21, 2026


Canada's Worker Boom： The REAL Economic Story! #TPLMedia

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In this episode, we take a deep dive into the surge in temporary foreign workers since the fall of the Harper era. We talk about the history of the temporary foreign worker program, how it came about, and why it's the one that gets all the heat.

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00:00:00.000 in this case, there's any number of serious-minded economists, whether it's CIBC reports or TV
00:00:06.240 reports, and they'll just say, well, look at the stats. Canada's always had, well, not always,
00:00:11.440 but ever since the Harper era, there's been sort of a low level of temporary foreign workers coming.
00:00:16.240 The temporary foreign worker program was devised as a result of, you had crazy oil booms in Alberta.
00:00:22.960 You know, anybody who can, you know, open both eyes and sometimes even not, was able to get a job in the oil sands, you know, starting at $25 an hour.
00:00:34.080 So in that situation, you basically like A&Ws and marshals and whatever multi-positions, nobody could find work under any circumstances whatsoever.
00:00:44.380 So essentially had them petitioning the federal government to say, well, can we bring in, you know, a student?
00:00:50.220 they're here for six months, they make a higher wage,
00:00:52.780 they send it home, you know, go back to, you know,
00:00:56.080 it's something that's happened in Canada for 400 years. 0.96
00:00:58.220 You used to bring Scots in, they'd work entry-level
00:01:01.220 bookkeeping at the HBC Fort, 1.00
00:01:02.720 and then they'd go back to Scotland with their earnings.
00:01:05.880 So can we, so this is where it started.
00:01:08.520 And then you saw a massive explosion,
00:01:10.080 not just of the temporary foreign worker program,
00:01:11.880 that's the one that gets all the heat, 0.96
00:01:13.020 that's the one everybody hates.
00:01:15.020 But I mean, if you look at the charts,
00:01:16.760 it's like temporary migration, and then right around 2021,
00:01:20.220 massive spike.