India, Aug. 23 -- Alarmed at the United States pausing worker visas for foreign commercial truck drivers, a leading Canadian association has called upon Ottawa for action to immediately address immigration-related "problems" in the industry.

The American action was announced by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday. He posted on X, "The increasing number of foreign drivers operating large tractor-trailer trucks on US roads is endangering American lives and undercutting the livelihoods of American truckers."

That followed a traffic accident in Florida earlier this month involving an Indian-origin truck driver who had entered the country illegally in 2018 but still managed to obtain a commercial driver's licence the next year in C...