A Coder Built a Job-Posting Website. Conservatives Turned It into a Weapon against Foreign Workers | The Walrus

"Conservative member of Parliament Michelle Rempel Garner, the shadow minister for immigration, has been on a social media tear. From August 26 to September 26, the member for the Alberta riding of Calgary Nose Hill posted on X about temporary foreign workers (TFWs). Nearly every day, she'd pluck a job listing from the jobwatchcanada.com website and imply it was fraudulent."

"Her accompanying commentary states that Ottawa's unemployment rate currently sits at 6.7 percent, and that 206,000 young people are unemployed in Ontario. The implication is that the posting must be fraudulent because the unemployment rate is above the 6 percent threshold, which, under the new rules governing the Temporary Foreigner Worker Program (TFWP), should disqualify restaurants like Boston Pizza from hiring foreign workers,"

"The point Rempel Garner is trying to make is that the TWFP is taking jobs away from young people in Canada, whose unemployment numbers have spiked over the past few years. The source of her information-jobwatchcanada.com-is a newly-minted site, registered on July 27, 2025, to a registrar based in Phoenix, Arizona, with the self-proclaimed goal to track "which employers frequently rely on the TFW program" and provide Canadians "with the information needed to make informed decisions about where to spend their money.""

Michelle Rempel Garner repeatedly posted job listings from jobwatchcanada.com on X between August 26 and September 26, implying many were fraudulent. A highlighted listing for six Boston Pizza cooks offered full-time pay between $17.20 and $23 an hour; the post noted Ottawa's 6.7 percent unemployment and 206,000 unemployed young people in Ontario, implying available domestic workers. The new Temporary Foreigner Worker Program rules set a 6 percent threshold, which Rempel Garner used to argue restaurants should not hire TFWs. The jobwatchcanada.com site registered July 27, 2025, aims to track employers who rely on the TFW program.

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