I worked for a company in Edmonton that would place ads for highly skilled work, at pretty much minimum wage, wait until nobody applied, and then hire TFW's...who couldn't do the job.

There was absolutely no reason to grant TFWs to restaurants. It just shows that money matters more to the government than people.

Two of the biggest abusers of the TFW program were Tim Hortons and Canadian Tire. They even lobbied government to expand the program / weaken its protections.

Two anecdotes to highlight how bullshit these companies are -- I'm not sure if they still do it, but for a while Tim Hortons had a "Tim Hortons" education/certification program in places like the Philippines. To meet TFW local job-hiring requirements, they'd advertise job openings that required that education, and when surprisingly no one came forward, they'd be able to import workers.

For Canadian Tire, I've previously worked with someone who was related to the owners of a couple Canadian Tires in Alberta. They effectively forced the TFW's to live 10 people to a house. If they didn't agree to live in the houses, the owners could drum up excuses to fire the TFW / have them deported. Those houses were owned by the owners of the Canadian Tire - the TFW's slave-rent paid off multiple mortgages. The owners of this store, owned a sub-penthouse in one of the most expensive condo towers in Vancouver, where they had a few $100k sports cars parked year round, though they only visited it for a weekend or two per year. All wealth generated off of indentured slaves. All seemingly allowed by the TFW program.

Our politicians are so gullible to believe businesses needed TFWs to fill jobs. They have to understand that it's always only about increasing profits. Not only should they not have brought in TFWs, but minimum wage needs to be raised to be a livable wage. If a business isn't making enough to pay every employee a livable wage, then their business model is a failure and they don't deserve to be in business. Not only Tim Hortons, but Walmart and Amazon are forcing governments to subsidize their low employee wages by having employees need food banks and other social services just to survive. It's criminal.

I thought they hired temporary foreign works because no locals wanted to work? Oh, it's because youth unemployment is up. Gee, I wonder why? Fucking slime balls.

Yet I got called racist when calling these hiring behaviours out over a decade ago. Funny how the world keeps aligning with my thoughts on most things when given time for rational considerations.

Tim Hortons does not control it's affiliates and franchisees hiring practices.

And it's those who are speed running the TFW program because they're getting paid by the applicants.

This is Tim Hortons' response to Dunkin Donuts opening up shop to try and appeal to their Canadian roots.