Harper Shill - Our Dollar
Geoff Norquay - temporary foreign workers lobbyist
Dear CBC Power and Politics : The next time you invite Harper's former director of communications Geoff Norquay onto your Power Panel to reflect on the issues of the day, I think it's time you mentioned that from November 2012 until Sept 2013 he was a lobbyist for Tim Hortons to :
"increase the number of foreign temporary workers allowed into Canada under the Foreign Temporary Worker's Program".
Norquay lobbied both Citizenship and Immigration and Human Resources and Skills Development Canada.
Tim Hortons isn't Norquay's only TFW lobbying gig [bold italics - mine]:
Client name: Microsoft Canada
Lobbyist name: Geoff Norquay, Consultant
Initial registration start date: 2006-04-06 to present
Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying of Canada
•Discussions with federal officials in the Departments of Employment and Social Development, Citizenship and Immigration, Industry Canada and Privy Council Office regarding the establishment of the British Columbia Excellence Centre to facilitate entry into Canada of foreign nationals to work in software development on a rotational basis under the Temporary Foreign Workers Program.
http://creekside1.blogspot.ca/2014/06/geoff-norquay-temporary-foreign-workers.html
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/temporary-foreign-worker-program-complaints-began-in-2006-1.2685056