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People questioning how so many Ontario companies claim they can't find local hires

While a growing number of Ontario residents are finding themselves out of work amid a deadly recession-ish/unemployment crisis combo, a suspiciously high number of local businesses continue to take advantage of the federal government's foreign worker program to hire overseas staffers — and residents are catching on.Canada's Labour Market Impact Assessments (LMIA) are certainly nothing new, but far more people are talking about the tool lately than perhaps ever before as Ontario (and the rest of the country) continues to battle a struggling economy, rampant job losses, tariff-related woes and the inevitable effects of a sharp population surge fueled by immigration.Brands like Tim Hortons have been called out for seemingly overutilizing of LMIAs, which are meant to be reserved solely for cases where there is "a need for a foreign worker to fill a job [because] no Canadian worker or permanent resident is available to do it."A q...


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