Feds’ communication over permanent residency plans gave temporary workers ‘false hope,’ says NDP MP Kwan

The immigration minister never said she was launching a new 'program' to which people could apply, but the piecemeal rollout and failing to correct the record 'invited deceit by unscrupulous actors,' says Tamara Mosher-Kuczer, a top-ranking immigration lawyer.
NDP immigration critic Jenny Kwan says the Liberal government’s announcement about its temporary worker initiative was 'misleading and outright deceptive.'

The federal government’s plans to fast-track permanent residence applications for temporary workers in limbo failed to meet the expectations created by what one opposition MP and immigration experts called “misleading” messaging from the minister. 

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