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According to the vice- president of the Canadian federation of agriculture, there are thousands of agricultural workers positions that were vacant last year. Due to the pandemic, many organizations in this field had a hard time hiring and bringing in foreign workers into the country. Despite the consequences of the Covid-19 the Canadian agricultural and food processing business boomed because of the huge increase of food exports. Now that millions of people are getting vaccinated, specially the workers, it is safer for both parties employers and employees to continue the process of hiring foreign farm and agricultural workers in Canada. 

The advantages of hiring a foreign worker in the agriculture industry in Canada

• High job demand: there is an increasing demand of agricultural workers in the job market in Canada. Canadian employers can rely on foreign farm workers to get the job done. Canadian farmers need foreign skilled workers to fill in the labour gap in the market.

• Insure food security: in order to insure food security in the country, the government continues to issue work permits for foreign workers in this field. Even though there are a lot of travel restrictions, this industry must continuer to work as it is essential to provide a good source of local fruits and vegetables.

• Easy entry in Canada: to entice the foreign workers to apply for position in the agricultural field in Canada the government implemented numerous programs.

• Increased productivity: the Canadian laws are very firm concerning the rules for farmers and farm workers. They will be inspected and audited very often in order to make sure that none of the parties break any rules. These strict rules and their effective implementation can lead to more discipline in the work resulting in increase productivity.

• Development of the economy: we know that an economic  growth is based on high productivity and high consumption, so in Canada the economic growth is based on the seasonal agricultural workers who come into Canada to work via the SAWP which leads to an increase of productivity. At the same time the consumption increases these temporary foreign workers purchase a lot of items for themselves to take back home.

• Creates more job opportunities: thanks to the seasonal agricultural workers program two to three jobs are created for every every seasonal worker that is hired. 

Hiring foreign agricultural workers in Canada can only result in a positive impact for the Canadian economy, the job market, the growers and the foreign workers. Overtime hiring and immigration process for the workers in this field has been altered, making it easy and quick for the farmers to recruit them. Now that the Covid-19 situation is handled there are higher chances for foreign agricultural worker to get hired again in the Canada.

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