'Temporary' workers account for 19% of Canada's private-sector workforce
A recently-released briefing note put the number of temporary residents in Canada at 3,049,277
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Temporary foreign workers account for a little under 19% of Canada’s private-sector workforce.
That’s according to a May 1 Immigration Ministry briefing note, according to coverage by Blacklock’s Reporter.
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“While temporary residents enrich Canada’s economy and social fabric, we have committed to reducing temporary immigration growth to better align the needs of our labour market, housing supply and community capacity,” said the briefing note, entitled Temporary Resident Reduction.
In January, Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey put Canada’s private-sector workforce at nearly 16.5 million people.
The note put the number of temporary residents at just over 3 million — a number that includes more than 129,000 individuals who illegally overstayed their visas.
That number was further broken down to about 1.5 million work permit holders, including 644,000 study permit holders, 164,000 family members without permits of their own, and more than 280,000 asylum claimants with work permits.
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