Chasing a fading dream

With a national unemployment rate of 6.9%, many employers in Canada complain of a shortage of skilled or willing workers. - epa

Time may be running out for Canada’s foreign workers as the government tightens rules on hiring temporary labourers.

BUGAN Wigan could handle the hard work packing fruit and cleaning hotel rooms, and the crushing debt she owed recruiters who found her jobs. But a backlash against the foreign worker programme that brought her to Canada means the clock is ticking on her ability to support her family in the Philippines.