Hessed Torres

The Plight of Migrant Workers

In recent years Citizenship and Immigration Canada has been shutting its doors on migrant workers. The Conservative government has made immigrating to Canada more and more difficult for working people, while expanding the numbers and restricting the rights of their temporary foreign worker programs. This approach plays off an unstable global economy, takes advantage of the desperation of workers from the global south, and undermines the strength of workers movements in Canada by dividing non-resident from resident workers. (…)