The Globe and Mail reports in its Monday edition that Tim Hortons is planning to dial back its use of the Temporary Foreign Worker program to staff restaurants and commit to hire up to 10,000 local workers. The Globe's Vanmala Subramaniam writes that for years, Tim Hortons was one of the biggest proponents of the TFW program, a controversial immigration stream that expanded during the pandemic and came to symbolize some of the failings of the Trudeau-era immigration strategy. Restaurant Brands International, Tim Hortons' parent company, is also pledging to stop lobbying the federal government to expand the TFW program, citing the high youth unemployment rate. "We have not lobbied the government since last year and we won't be lobbying them on TFWs any time soon given our commitment to hire locally everywhere possible," said Duncan Fulton, chief corporate officer of RBI. Mr. Fulton noted that wages for Tim Hortons' workers are the same regardless of whether franchise owners hire local or foreign workers. "At the end of the day, our owners would prefer to hire locally almost 100 per cent of the time," he said. The TFW program has been controversial for decades, largely owing to allegations of worker abuse by employers.