Subhead:Fast-food chains like Tim Hortons are abusing a program designed for temporary labour — not as a permanent staffing model for multinational corporations.#
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The Act for Alberta billboard truck made a pit stop at Tim Hortons this week with a message that hit harder than a double-double when you’re under-caffeinated: “Tim Hortons should not be a pathway to citizenship.”
The truck rolled through a Tim’s drive-thru plastered with criticism of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program and the company’s reliance on it, highlighting growing frustration from Albertans who feel locked out of entry-level jobs that used to belong to students and young workers.
And the numbers are ugly.
Youth unemployment for Canadians aged 15 to 19 is hovering around 20%, according to recent labour market data. That means one in five Canadian teenagers looking for work can’t find it.
