The safety and well-being of migrant workers should be top-of-mind as seafood and farming companies grapple with new travel restrictions prompted by COVID-19, advocates for temporary foreign workers say.
Canada could go one step further and grant all overseas workers permanent resident status.
Either migrant workers should have access to permanent residency so they can benefit from the same rights as the resident population, or the TFW program should be scrapped altogether.
If people are good enough to work they should be good enough to be cared for.
On Thanksgiving we gather with family and friends and often we acknowledge the delicious bounty that's before us. But what about the temporary foreign workers who tend to and harvest this food?
This community research report published by Cooper Institute in 2012 identifies the various federal programs governing the Temporary Foreign Worker Program and how these are manifested in PEI