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Another entry titled ‘About RBC firing Canadians to hire foreign workers. Maybe RBC has troubled finances?’ calls into question the argument that the bank could justify such actions on financial grounds. “NOPE . . . Seems like RBC is acting like every other dime-a-dozen corporation,” reads the introductory blurb from poster GrndCtrl2MajTom.

RBC was trending on Twitter in Canada Sunday afternoon.“Bad move @RBC I’ve been thinking about switching, thanks for making decision easy for me,” tweeted one man.

“What is wrong with you @RBC—Canada,” tweeted another. “Making Canadians lose their jobs … I will switch banks, if not corrected.”

Financial Post staff, with files from Canadian Press

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The Royal Bank of Canada denied reports that it has hired temporary foreign workers to take over its own employees’ job functions adding in a statement Sunday that it does work with “external suppliers” to provide certain services both in Canada and globally.

Diane Finley, federal minister of human resources and skills development, reacted over the weekend to a CBC report that the bank is laying off 45 employees in its RBC Investor Services division in Toronto and training foreign workers hired through IT outsourcing firm iGATE Corp. to take over some of those jobs in Canada while the majority of the roles will eventually be transferred abroad.

“We have recently learned of allegations that RBC could be replacing Canadian workers by contracting with iGATE, which is filling some of the roles with temporary foreign workers,” Ms. Finley said in a statement published online Sunday morning. “If true, this situation is unacceptable.”