{"id":100300,"date":"2022-06-27T15:33:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T19:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/temporary-workers-international-students-more-and-more-important-to-canada"},"modified":"2022-06-27T16:30:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T20:30:49","slug":"temporary-workers-international-students-more-and-more-important-to-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/temporary-workers-international-students-more-and-more-important-to-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Temporary Workers, International Students More And More Important To Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canadian businesses are relying more and more on Temporary Foreign Workers<\/span><\/a> (TFWs) and international students<\/span><\/a> to fill vacant jobs and that\u2019s helping a growing number of these temporary residents get their permanent residency here.<\/p>\n

In its latest Research to Insights: Immigration as a Source of Labour Supply<\/i> report, Statistics Canada says the number of temporary foreign workers in Canada was seven times as high at the end of last year as it had been at the turn of the millennium.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe number of TFWs, work permit holders on Dec. 31 in each year, increased seven-fold from 111,000 in 2000 to 777,000 in 2021,\u201d states the statistical and demographic services agency.<\/p>\n

During the decade that ended in 2019, the percentage of temporary foreign workers in the labour force doubled, rising from two per cent in 2010 to four per cent in 2019.<\/p>\n

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In some sectors, the importance of temporary foreign workers was even more pronounced, with 15 per cent of all agricultural workers being foreign nationals in 2019 and 10 per cent of those in the accommodations and food services sector and the administrative and support, waste management and remediations services sector as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTFWs were also overrepresented in some higher-skilled industries, such as professional, scientific, and technical services sector, where they comprised six per cent of the workforce, and the information and cultural industries, where they comprised five per cent of the workforce,\u201d notes Statistics Canada.<\/p>\n

International students, too, are increasingly contributing to the Canadian labour force.<\/p>\n

In the decade that ended in 2019, the number of international students working in Canada annually jumped from 22,000 to 354,000, a 16-fold jump. While only 18 per cent of international students were holding down jobs while going to school in Canada in 2000, half of them were working while taking classes by 2019.<\/p>\n

TFWs And International Students Are Choosing To Make Canada Their Home<\/h3>\n

With that work experience, many of them are choosing \u2013 and succeeding \u2013 in becoming permanent residents of Canada.<\/p>\n

\u201cTemporary foreign workers and international students are transitioning to permanent residency in greater numbers,\u201d notes Statistics Canada.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbout 25 per cent of TFWs who arrived in Canada in the late 2000s and early 2010s became permanent residents within five years after obtaining their first work permit, compared with the rate of 18 per cent among those who arrived in the early 2000s.\u201d<\/p>\n

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