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Rural Ontario businesses caught between federal policy and provincial dithering

Dale Fortes has built a business on certainty. Since 2009, he has run the Boston Pizza in Fort Frances, Ont. and grown it into a stable employer of more than 100 people. Now he is betting nearly $4 million on a second location in Dryden, an hour’s drive away. But there is one thing he cannot control: The clocks on his workers’ permits. All 10 of his temporary foreign workers — cooks, kitchen staff and front-of-house staff — hold work permits that expire within the next four months. A year ago, when they arrived, there were clear pathways for them…

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