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Ottawa doubles maximum time employer can hire low-wage temporary foreign workers

The government said restrictions on hiring temporary foreign workers in cities with unemployment rates above six per cent will remain in place. But Ottawa is adding early childhood educators to the list of professions exempted from those restrictions, which already includes certain jobs in health care, construction and food processing.

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