A mining company under scrutiny over its plan to bring 201 Chinese miners to a proposed project in northern British Columbia listed Mandarin as a language requirement when it applied for temporary foreign worker permits, newly released documents reveal.
The Federal Court released a package of documents Friday linked to HD Mining’s proposed Murray River underground coal mine, which has been overshadowed by controversy over the use of temporary foreign workers.
Among those documents is one of HD Mining’s applications to Human Resources and Skills Development Canada for a labour market opinion — an assessment conducted by the federal department that assesses the need to hire foreign workers instead of Canadians.
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