Let's Screw Canada AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!

Several dozen people rallied in Edmonton pm Saturday to raise awareness about the struggles faced by temporary foreign workers.

Carrying signs that read "Respect the work, respect the worker," protesters at Churchill Square called for an end to the exploitation of temporary foreign workers.

They say workers come to Alberta looking for better opportunities but many are taken advantage of by employers.

Clarizze Truscott, who organized the rally, said it's painful to watch her friends who are foreign workers being abused at work.

"The way the program is, it is generally flawed," she said. "It creates second-class citizens, it sets people up for exploitation and abuse. This is unacceptable, and this is why we're drawing attention to those issues."

Joe Delana, originally from the Philippines, moved to Edmonton from Dubai in 2006.

He says he was taken advantage of when he first arrived, being forced to take on extra duties and work overtime without being paid for it.

"Here in Canada, there's a lot of opportunity, but not for foreign workers."

Delana and others at the rally called on the federal government to make changes that would loosen restrictions and allow temporary foreign workers to apply for citizenship.

"I think Canada is a free country but you cannot move freely because there is a lot of restrictions on us," Delana said.

New Democrat MLA Rachel Notley came to the rally to show her support for Edmonton's temporary foreign workers.

"We should welcome them and embrace them and treat them like equal citizens and give them everything Canada has to offer," she said.

Earlier this week, the federal government proposed changes to the Temporary Foreign Workers Program aimed at protecting the rights of foreign workers.

Truscott said she has little hope it will make a difference, because the federal government has failed to make good on similar promises in the past.



This is so NDP on so many levels and so dam wrong.

Again we have people coming to Canada and making demands. I'll put it as simply and clearly as I can. IF YOU DON'T LIKE CANADA GO THE BLAZES BACK WHERE YOU CAME FROM.

"Here in Canada, there's a lot of opportunity, but not for foreign workers."

What a load of BS.

HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF SECURITY? WE ARE AT WAR!!!!! We don't let and shouldn't let foreigners of any kind just have the freedom to go anywhere they want when they want. Keep in mind they came from a Arab and Muslim country that is probably financing the killing of our soldiers in Afghanistan.

Also what ever idiot that allowed a foreign worker to enter the country during a global recession and massive unemployment should be fired. The employers should be fined heavily because it's obvious that they are discriminating against Canadians if they are hiring them.

"We should welcome them and embrace them and treat them like equal citizens and give them everything Canada has to offer,"

Are you out of your frakin mind???

We should tell them to stay where they are until we decide we need them and while they are waiting they should study English (and French if possible) as well as the history of Canada and basic Canadian policy. If we decide to let them in they should not be given any benefits besides the ones their employer provides and if they lose their employment it should lead to immediate deportation. Our fore Fathers died to give us what we have. Probably to a degree at the hands of the fore fathers of these foreign workers.

To Clarizze Truscott I say if your a Canadian , your a traitor and if your not you should be deported. Don't let the door hit you and your friends on the way back to Dubai.