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Lululemon blasts Canadian Temporary Foreign Workers Program rules, threatens to leave country (Financial Post)

October 21, 2016

Lululemon Athletica Inc., one of Vancouver’s most successful companies, is warning it may be forced to move its 1,200-employee head office outside the country because of problems with the federal government’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program, the Financial Post reports. The athletic apparel retailer — which earlier this year delivered a scathing written critique of the strict temporary foreign worker rules on hiring foreigners — wants the same kind of exemption Ottawa grants to universities, the film industry and Microsoft.