{"id":32060,"date":"2026-01-07T17:24:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/?p=32060"},"modified":"2026-01-07T17:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:24:23","slug":"scrap-the-controversial-temporary-foreign-worker-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/blogs\/thecraigneedlespodcast\/2026\/01\/scrap-the-controversial-temporary-foreign-worker-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrap The Controversial Temporary Foreign Worker Program?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Temporary Foreign Worker program has come under criticism both in Canada from the opposition Conservatives and internationally from the United Nations &#8211; is it time to get rid of it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peter Fragiskatos says no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The London Centre MP &#8211; who also serves as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship &#8211; joined Craig on the podcast to explain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Episode 429 of the Craig Needles Podcast is brought to you Downtown London and the Covent Garden Market.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"podbean-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"podbean-shortcode\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=9gb2g-1a10ea3-pb&amp;from=pb6admin&amp;share=1&amp;download=0&amp;rtl=0&amp;fonts=Arial&amp;skin=f6f6f6&amp;font-color=auto&amp;logo_link=podcast_page&amp;btn-skin=c73a3a\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow the show on your favourite podcast app:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.com\/podcasts\/f6821161-c427-469e-ad54-a9913e45cf3e\/the-craig-needles-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon Music<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4bcTUq6pZZCFbD7EDdxJpw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spotify<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/News--Politics-Podcasts\/The-Craig-Needles-Podcast-p1560524\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TuneIn<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/ca\/podcast\/the-craig-needles-podcast\/id1593395773\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/269-the-craig-needles-podcast-236255548\/\">iHeart<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Temporary Foreign Worker program has come under criticism both in Canada from the opposition Conservatives and internationally from the United Nations &#8211; is it time to get rid of it? Peter Fragiskatos says no. The London Centre MP &#8211; who also serves as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":27606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3362],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thecraigneedlespodcast"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 00:25:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/classicrock981.com\/blogs\/thecraigneedlespodcast\/2026\/01\/scrap-the-controversial-temporary-foreign-worker-program\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32061,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32060\/revisions\/32061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}