- Target:
- Tourism
- Region:
- Canada
Labour shortages within the tourism retail, and food and beverage industry have started to affect the bottom line of businesses throughout Canada.
Every year close to 30,000 international workers come to Canada to visit, travel and work under the Canadian Working Holiday Visa Program. Most of these visitors engage in tourism, retail, and food beverage jobs.
Increasing the duration of the visa from one year to two years and lifting the age requirements would help to offset the labour shortages within these respective industries.
Petition to the House of Commons in Parliament Assembled:
We, the undersigned, support changing the current Canadian Working Holiday Visa Program to extend the period of validation from one year to at least two years and to eliminate the current age restrictions.
The working holiday visa program is a reciprocal country to country exchange program which currently allows international visitors age 18-30 to work in Canada for a period of up to one year.
The proposed changes would greatly help offset the current and future labour shortages within the construction, tourism and hospitality industries that have had, and will continue to have, a serious impact on business operations and service levels in Whistler, BC and other Canadian resort communities.
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The Amendment to the Working Holiday Visa Program petition to Tourism was written by Whistler Chamber of Commerce and is in the category Employment at GoPetition.