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Seafood processors, fishermen unite in opposing temporary foreign workers changes

863a4ac9dc_64635696_o2The P.E.I. Seafood Processors Association and the P.E.I. Fishermen’s Association have united in calling for a reversal of Ottawa’s sweeping reforms of the temporary foreign worker program — reforms they say will have a devastating impact on the Island’s seafood industry. Read more here 22:15

Lobster jobs at risk over Temporary Foreign Workers changes – could look elsewhere to process, like Maine, or shipping overseas.”

CBC_News_logoNew Brunswick lobster processors say changes to the Temporary Foreign Workers Program will force them to move jobs out of the province. The federal government imposed restrictions on the program to curtail alleged abuses that left Canadian workers jobless. Read more here 07:47