Opinion: HD Mining allowed temporary foreign workers while Canadian miners are unemployed

Normally, when someone gets a lump of coal at Christmas, they are very unhappy about being recognized for their bad behaviour.
But not if they are a controversial coal mining company that was previously in deep trouble for hiring Chinese-speaking Temporary Foreign Workers for its coal mine near Tumbler Ridge in northeast B.C.
HD Mining created such a firestorm that the then-Conservative federal government of Stephen Harper had to make major changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker program that ha