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Strong local businesses and a reliable workforce are essential to keeping rural economies growing and communities thriving across Canada. Canadians must always be first in line for available jobs. However, in regions experiencing severe labour shortages, the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program allows employers to hire foreign workers to address critical, short-term workforce gaps when qualified Canadians or permanent residents are not available.
Today, the Minister of Transport and Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Steven MacKinnon, announced up to $6.4 million to R.W. Tomlinson Ltd.’s Ontario Trap Rock facility for their Trap Rock Electrification of Extended Ship Loading System project in Bruce Mines, funded under the Green Shipping Corridor Program.
Members of the media are invited to join the Honourable Ruby Sahota, Secretary of State for Combatting Crime, along with Peel Regional Police Chief Nishan Duraiappah, Deputy Chief Nick Milinovich, City of Mississauga, City of Brampton, and Town of Caledon Officials for a press conference on Canada’s efforts to support law enforcement agencies and Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) with new tools to investigate serious threats, disrupt organized crime, and protect our communities.
Members of the media are invited to join the Honourable Gary Anandasangaree, Minister of Public Safety, along with the Honourable Nina Krieger, Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General of British Columbia, for a press conference on Canada’s efforts to support law enforcement agencies and Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) with new tools to investigate serious threats, disrupt organized crime, and protect our communities. They will be joined by local law enforcement officials.
Bill C-4, the Making Life More Affordable for Canadians Act, today received Royal Assent. This legislation brings key affordability measures into law, which will save Canadians hundreds of dollars each year.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has reached agreement with Mexico’s Servicio Nacional de Sanidad, Inocuidad y Calidad Agroalimentaria (SENASICA) on arrangements that will allow shipments of Canadian potatoes for consumption or processing to Mexico.
