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Canadian Government does little to protect the rights of migrant workers
November 4th, 2009 | 
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VINCE TALOTTA/TORONTO STAR
The following is an article from The Toronto Star about the hugely problematic Temporary Foreign Worker Program run by the Government of Canada.
Sign the petition to call on Stephen Harper and the Government of Canada to protect the rights of migrant workers in this country.
How we’re creating an illegal workforce
Controversial federal program brings in foreigners for temporary jobs, but leaves them ripe for abuse
By Sandro Contenta & Laurie Monsebraarten from the Toronto Star – Nov 1, 2009
Foreigners in Canada on temporary work permits are being pushed into Toronto’s underground economy by the recession and a controversial federal program that leaves them vulnerable to abuse, a Star investigation has found.
They include people like Tony, a 29-year-old Honduran, who left his Alberta farm job after complaining of long hours and lower-than-promised wages. He rode a bus to Toronto in mid-September with two fellow Hondurans from the same farm. He now works illegally renovating homes, and his friends work illegally cleaning schools.
“I want to be someone, to do something with my life – that’s why I’m here,” says Tony, who fears being deported.
Also citing employer abuse is a Salvadoran couple fired from their Halifax hotel jobs when the woman got pregnant. They moved here to look for work in September. Read the rest of this entry »
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Sign the Green Scroll Petition in support of protesters in Iran
From July 10-12 (Friday to Sunday) the Iranian Student Association of Guelph (ISAG) will have a petition avaiable to sign stating that “Ahmadinejad is not Iran’s president.” The petition is being signed around the world on green fabric (the colour of the reformist campaign in the disputed election).
Drop by the Union office to sign your name:
UC 213A
10am – 8pm
Friday July 10 – Sunday July 12
