Film company accused of foreign worker fraud, extortion

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An Iranian couple has gone public about how a B.C. business charged the pair $15,000 to come to Canada — a violation of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program rules — for jobs that turned out to be non-existent.

“We came for job. But they didn't give us,” said Sareh Aminian, who said her husband was only given one day’s paid work. “It makes me crazy.”

The couple entered Canada in March 2013, under contracts with Parvaz Film Corporation originally signed in 2011 and 2012.

Company owner Sherry Soltani and her husband, Majid Mahichi, run a photo studio in Maple Ridge, B.C. They also broadcast cable TV shows in Farsi for the local Persian community.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/film-company-accused-of-foreign-worker-fraud-extortion-1.2645557
May 19, 2014 2:00 AM PT| Last Updated: May 19, 2014 11:26 AM PT


Stephen Harper's 'Strategic' Path to Ruin
The Temporary Foreign Workers Program is a disaster for many reasons. One is that the promised (and politically critical) reforms to the program are being cited as a major stumbling block to trade deals with Europe and India. Both include generous provisions for European and Indian companies to import their own nationals to work in businesses they establish here. Cuts to the TFWP are generating complaints.

http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2014/05/19/Harper-Ruin-Path/

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1. This is interesting

a link to a map showing what businesses are using them. Notice that some provinces aren't using any to speak of.

whoops!
edit to add link: http://ntfw.ca/map-companies-hiring-temporary-foreign-workers/