The CCR is concerned about Canada’s recent shift to temporary migration, which marks a dramatic change in policy for which there has been little public debate. In 2008, the number of temporary foreign workers in Canada exceeded the total number of permanent residents admitted in the same year.
For a country built on immigration, large-scale temporary migration has significant social, political and human implications.
The CCR has published a pamphlet to raise awareness of organizations, the public and MPs to these concerns.
Temporary workers pamphlet 
To order printed copies of the pamphlet, see the Publications Order Form.
The Canadian Temporary Foreign Worker Program: Do Short-Term Economic Needs Prevail over Human Rights Concerns?
Delphine Nakache and Paula J. Kinoshita
Institute for Research on Public Policy
May 13, 2010
Canadian Issues - Temporary Foreign
Workers Issue
Metropolis
Spring 2010
Canada’s Immigration Fall from Grace
By Uzma Shakir
May 12, 2009
Temporary Foreign Workers and Non-Status Workers
Report of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration
May 2009
Les travailleurs étrangers temporaires et les travailleurs sans statut légal
Rapport du Comité permanent de la citoyenneté et l'immigration
Mai 2009
Caring but not cared for: How the federal government can protect live-in caregivers
Ratna Omidvar, Maytree Opinion
May 2009
OCASI Calls for a Thorough Reform of the Live-In Caregivers Program
May 2009
Entrenching Exploitation
The Second Report of the Alberta Federation of Labour Temporary Foreign Worker Advocate
April 2009
Temporary worker programs: North America’s second class citizens
By Luin Goldring, Jenna Hennebry, and Kerry Preibisch
March 2009
Tough Choices for Migrant Workers
Ratna Omidvar, Maytree Opinion
March 2009
The Shift in Canadian Immigration Policy and Unheeded Lessons of the Live-in Caregiver Program
By Salimah Valiani, Independent Researcher
February 2009
Manitoba's Worker Recruitment and Protection Act
News Release, February 9, 2009
Our Invisible Workforce: Temporary Foreign Workers in BC
AMSSA – Cultures West, Fall 2008
Cultivating Farmworker Rights: Ending the Exploitation of Immigrant and Migrant Farmworkers in BC
Co-published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – BC Office, Justicia for Migrant Workers, Progressive Intercultural Community Services, and the BC Federation of Labour
June 2008
Temporary Foreign Workers
Library of Parliament
September 2007
Les travailleurs étrangers temporaires
Bibliothèque du Parlement
Septembre 2007
Temporary foreign workers: economic commodities in Canada?
By Chris Pullenayegem, Citizens for Public Justice
September 2007
Wages, markets and temporary workers
By David A. Green, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
June 28, 2007
National Migrant Justice Gathering: Building Solidarity, Taking Action
KAIROS, National Alliance of Philippine Women in Canada, STATUS Campaign, UFCW Canada
June 2006
www.december18.net
Portal for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Migrants
The Status of Migrant Farm Workers in Canada 2006-2007
United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW)
Recent media articles on temporary workers
