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Canada: Immigration reforms will not affect greenhouse growers

Ottawa has unveiled The Levels Plan to limit the number of people moving to Canada, including temporary residents and foreign workers.

However, the new rules are not going to impact the local greenhouse sector, which relies on seasonal workers, according to the federal government's news release.

"The temporary resident targets in the levels plan do not include short-term visitors or seasonal workers, who are not captured in annual population estimates," it reads.

Canada is trying to reduce temporary resident volumes to five per cent of the national population by 2026 and has already made changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) program.

Read more at CTV News Windsor

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