{"id":46350,"date":"2015-04-01T22:03:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T14:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=46350"},"modified":"2015-04-08T15:23:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T07:23:05","slug":"statement-from-immigration-minister-employment-minister-on-the-expiration-of-the-four-year-temporary-work-permits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/04\/01\/statement-from-immigration-minister-employment-minister-on-the-expiration-of-the-four-year-temporary-work-permits\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement from Immigration Minister Employment Minister on the expiration of the four-year temporary work permits"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7254\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7254\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Chris-Alexander.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7254\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Chris-Alexander.jpg\" alt=\"Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander (Facebook photo)\" width=\"960\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Chris-Alexander.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Chris-Alexander-300x149.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7254\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander (Facebook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ottawa \u2013 Canada\u2019s Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander and Employment and Social Development Minister Pierre Poilievre issued the following statement today on the expiration of the four-year work permits:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmployers and foreign workers have known about the four-year time limit since 2011, when this policy was announced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmployers have had four years to find alternative employees. Similarly, temporary foreign workers have had four years to pursue pathways to permanent residence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe purpose of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program is exactly that \u2013 to be temporary. Canadians rightly expect to get first crack at available jobs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTemporary workers may wish to explore the many pathways to permanent residency we offer which are now delivered through Express Entry and Provincial Nominee Programs. We encourage foreign workers to apply through these streams so that they can contribute permanently to Canada\u2019s economy and to their communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut let there be no mistake: We will not tolerate people going \u2018underground.\u2019 Flouting our immigration laws is not an option, and we will deal with offenders swiftly and fairly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanadians are welcoming and generous but we need to ensure that we\u2019re putting Canadians first and standing up against potential abuse of our immigration system.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa \u2013 Canada\u2019s Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander and Employment and Social Development Minister Pierre Poilievre issued the following &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":7254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-immigration","mauthors-press-release-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}