Restaurant chain Tim Hortons is planning to dial back its use of Ottawa’s Temporary Foreign Worker program to staff restaurants and commit to hire up to 10,000 local workers as it embarks on a push to expand the number of Tims locations across the country this year.
The chain’s new approach to hiring is a stark reversal from its previous tenor. For years, Tim Hortons was one of the biggest proponents of the TFW program, a controversial immigration stream that expanded in popularity during the pandemic and came to symbolize some of the failings of the Trudeau-era immigration strategy.
Only after Tim’s has imported a pool of millions of cheap foreign laborer’s they pull this stunt.
