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Grown Locally, Harvested Globally: The Role of Temporary Foreign Workers in Canadian Agriculture

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Canadians produce a lot of food, but harvesting that food has increasingly meant relying on a growing force of temporary foreign workers (TFWs). In 2020, however, border restrictions imposed by Canadian governments to control the spread of the novel coronavirus, and perhaps the reluctance of TFWs to travel to Canada during the pandemic, have significantly impeded the use of TFWs in Canada’s food-production system. That has revealed the vulnerabilities of the Canadian food supply chain to globally disruptive events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and the risk to a system that has, historically, provided Canadians with a stable, affordable supply of food for their local grocery stores.

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  • Robert Falconer, 2020. "Grown Locally, Harvested Globally: The Role of Temporary Foreign Workers in Canadian Agriculture," SPP Communique, The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, vol. 13(17), July.
    • Handle: RePEc:clh:commun:v:13:y:2020:i:17
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    1. Prokopenko, Elena & Hou, Feng, 2018. "How Temporary Were Canada’s Temporary Foreign Workers?," Analytical Studies Branch Research Paper Series 2018402e, Statistics Canada, Analytical Studies Branch.
    2. Elena Prokopenko & Feng Hou, 2018. "How Temporary Were Canada's Temporary Foreign Workers?," Population and Development Review, The Population Council, Inc., vol. 44(2), pages 257-280, June.
    3. Hou, Feng & Lu, Yuquian, 2017. "Transition from Temporary Foreign Workers to Permanent Residents, 1990 to 2014," Analytical Studies Branch Research Paper Series 2017389e, Statistics Canada, Analytical Studies Branch.
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    Cited by:

    1. Eugénie Depatie-Pelletier & Hannah Deegan & Katherine Berze, 2022. "Band-Aid on a Bullet Wound—Canada’s Open Work Permit for Vulnerable Workers Policy," Laws, MDPI, vol. 11(3), pages 1-20, April.
    2. May T. Yeung & William A. Kerr, 2021. "Canadian Agri-Food Export Opportunities in a Covid-19 World," SPP Briefing Papers, The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, vol. 14(5), February.
    3. Robert Falconer, 2020. "Family Farmers to Foreign Fieldhands: Consolidation of Canadian Agriculture and the Temporary Foreign Worker Program," SPP Briefing Papers, The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, vol. 13(21), August.

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