Federal Skilled Worker Program or the Ministerial Instruction Directive Nov. 08) access the TFW program and then seek residency status via Provincial Nominee Programs (PNP). 
II.  Using the term ‘Foreign’ is problematic because it suggests these workers are ‘alien’ or something “other” than from here. Terms like these tend to marginalize and unjustly segregate people.
While racial status data is not collected on migrant workers, we do know the top 10 source countries and it is obvious these workers are largely racialized.  In 2006, nearly 35% of the then 160,000 plus migrant workers came from countries where the majority of the population is racialized. 

Furthermore, as of December 2008, the number of migrant workers had topped 250,000 – greater than the number of newcomers who were granted permanent residency status (247,196), and the principal source countries (see bar chart) for these newcomers are in Asia and the Pacific, Africa and the Middle East, and South and Central America.  There is little doubt migrant workers are disproportionately racialized.
Live in Caregivers are almost fully a cohort of racialized women. According to Cecilia Diocson, Chair of the National Alliance of Philippine Women in Canada (NAPWC)—over 96% of domestic workers are Filipino women.
The colour coded and gendered reality of who is a migrant worker requires policy makers to address racial and gender labour force/economic status distortions that are systemically inherent in temporary migration programs.