Americas
Canada Axes Key Incentive for Scammers to Sell Migrants Low-Wage Jobs
A worker harvests daffodils at a farm in British Columbia.
Photographer: James MacDonald/BloombergThis article is for subscribers only.
Canada is removing a key incentive that gave foreign workers an easier pathway to gain permanent residency, part of a broader crackdown to drastically reduce immigration.
The Canadian government will stop awarding additional scores on residency applications to people who receive job offers through the temporary foreign worker program, Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced Tuesday.