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{
"time": "2026-02-04 18:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Christopher Worswick",
"fr": "Christopher Worswick"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9163525\" data-originallang=\"en\">An argument could be made.... I have another paper from 2020 in the Canadian Journal of Economics that looked at the temporary foreign worker program. It used data from around the time of the Harper government, not from the most recent period. We came up with a theoretical model and empirical evidence that suggested the temporary foreign worker program could be suppressing and lowering wages.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9163526\" data-originallang=\"en\">I think the bigger concern, probably, is whether we see wage growth. Are we stopping the wage growth? Is it lowering wages? I'm not so sure. However, I would be concerned that wages are not growing, that so-called labour shortages are becoming chronic and that we're relying on temporary foreign worker programs and on less-skilled permanent immigration to solve a problem that is addressed in many countries just through wage growth.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9163527\" data-originallang=\"en\">At the same time, I hear well-intentioned people complaining about poverty rates and income inequality. The best way to fix these problems is through wage growth. I'll stop there.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9163525\" data-originallang=\"en\">On pourrait soutenir... Dans un autre article, qui remonte \u00e0 2020, dans la <em>Revue canadienne d'\u00e9conomique</em>, nous nous sommes pench\u00e9s sur le programme des travailleurs \u00e9trangers temporaires. Les donn\u00e9es utilis\u00e9es remontent \u00e0 l'\u00e9poque du gouvernement Harper, et non aux derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es. Nous sommes parvenus \u00e0 un mod\u00e8le th\u00e9orique et \u00e0 des donn\u00e9es empiriques qui portent \u00e0 penser que le programme des travailleurs \u00e9trangers temporaires fait peut-\u00eatre baisser les salaires.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9163526\" data-originallang=\"en\">La pr\u00e9occupation majeure, selon moi, est probablement de savoir si l'on observe une croissance des salaires. Emp\u00eachons-nous la croissance des salaires? Je n'en suis pas si s\u00fbr. Toutefois, je trouve pr\u00e9occupant que les salaires n'augmentent pas, que les fameuses p\u00e9nuries de main-d'\u0153uvre soient en train de devenir chroniques et que nous comptions sur un programme de travailleurs \u00e9trangers temporaires et sur une immigration permanente de personnes moins qualifi\u00e9es pour r\u00e9soudre un probl\u00e8me qui se r\u00e8gle dans de nombreux pays par une simple hausse de salaire.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9163527\" data-originallang=\"en\">Parall\u00e8lement, j'entends des personnes bien intentionn\u00e9es se plaindre du taux de pauvret\u00e9 et des in\u00e9galit\u00e9s de revenus. Le meilleur moyen de r\u00e9gler ces probl\u00e8mes, c'est la croissance des salaires. Je m'arr\u00eate ici.</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/immigration/45-1/19/christopher-worswick-22/",
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"source_id": "13336393",
"document_url": "/committees/immigration/45-1/19/",
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