Officers from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada are rejecting foreign worker applicants over ‘family ties’ within Canada, despite none of them actually having relatives in the country. This has Canadian agricultural operators sounding the alarm, as they have been struggling to find workers for quite a while.
This week, the Canadian Mushroom Growers’ Association echoed concerns, claiming chronic and often inexplicable rejections of temporary foreign worker applications by the IRCC are creating grief for farmers.
“We’re starting to see these mass refusals,” said Mushrooms Canada’s Janet Krayden in an interview with National Post. She said their members started getting hit with a flurry of unexplained rejections late last fall. Krayden said Canada’s mushroom farmers are experiencing the effects, specifically concerning Vietnamese applicants inexplicably rejected for family ties within Canada, despite none of them actually having relatives in this country.
Source: princegeorgepost.com