Forty percent of foreign workers in Canada came from Mexico
New statistics provided by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) show that the top source countries of foreign workers in Canada were Mexico, Jamaica, India, Guatemala, and the Philippines. Between January and April of 2020, Canada issued just over 33,000 work permits under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP). Mexicans accounted for 41% of all these temporary foreign workers. Some 66% of the 33,000 work permits were issued to agricultural workers. Total TFWP arrivals are down 18% compared with the same period last year. The data capture new work permits issued to TFWs who were eligible to work in Canada under either the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) or the International Mobility Program (IMP).
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