Are Canada's migrant workers experiencing ‘contemporary forms of slavery'? | The Big Story

[@GrabinUrloot]

The government pays part of the wages for immigrant workers in the service industry. Every Tim Hortons and fast food restaurant is full of them. This has nothing to do with filling a gap, these businesses are incentivized to hire them.

[@carlyatkinson4307]

Gov not reliable

[@rennieterbogt1202]

Truth!

[@dootdoot1867]

That or go under. Government picking winners and losers and forcing conformity.

[@GrabinUrloot]

@@dootdoot1867 yep and as a result teenagers who should be getting their first summer jobs or gender studies graduates are unable to get jobs in the service industry for experience.

They call them selves Canadian businesses but do not hire Canadians.

[@GordanaB-sc7kt]

We as Canadian citizens are also slaves is anyone saying anything about that

[@mandelish]

No, because those people in media know us much as their masters tell them and talk only about things they let them to talk about. Yes, canadian workers are frequently abused and stuck in horrible jobs ...there is no institution going after abusing employees ..No where to go for help. Situation is indeed close to slavery and they dare to talk about migrants...people they invite here ...

Well they are trafficked by farmers who then over charge for their products, But you are not going to get me calling them anything like migrants or refugees... Call them what they are.

[@Recklooseranch]

Yes

[@Circus1990]

It is up to you to raise awareness.

[@HighlifeLuna]

As a Canadian who's been looking for a job in these industries... It's worse than you think.

[@redfo3009]

I lost my cleaning contracts to this issue. They get paid half their salary from WorkBC so their 'employers' (masters) only pay them a pitence

[@Andre-vr1ul]

Are Canadian workers (all of us), experiencing contemporary forms of slavery?

[@mandelish]

Yes, if that was a question...they are...

[@carlyatkinson4307]

All that is so untrue. Most not true immigrants

[@cliffkonkle3467]

​@@carlyatkinson4307WAKE UP

[@DavidTa2]

No. D'uh.

[@White_Wrath]

Yes and we are also paying for the housing of people that hate us.

[@jeromestrix]

I'm a Canadian citizen and i feel I'm in a contemporary form of slavery

[@MisterPerson-fk1tx]

We still let you have half your paycheck. Suppressing your wage isn't slavery either. No stop complaining or we'll censor you off the internet.

[@joannafreedom7111]

Canadians are too.

[@mandelish]

first of all...

[@liserockory]

Might want to look at Agriculture labour laws in Canada and not only for foreign workers but with educated Canadians doing the same work ! Agriculture is exempt from paying overtime , vac pay and are also overworked their employees

[@jimmiematho8082]

Why is there a rapid expansion on the migrant program😢😮🤯 Stop! Enough is enough

[@saxonkuhle7008]

Unfortunately Canadians aren’t having enough kids. We need more immigrants to replace older Canadians leaving their jobs to support our economy. Have more kids! Look into the demographics of western countries and it will make sense why we are letting so many in. I don’t understand why no one talks about this.

[@jimmiematho8082]

@@saxonkuhle7008 lol... you must listen and watch a lot of CBC your regurgitating the WEF Klaus Schwab libtard mantra. Saxon is the good little Trudeau liberal isn't he

[@jimmiematho8082]

@@saxonkuhle7008 =🤣👶🏻🐑🤖....lowIQ

[@namesurname1243]

I was one of those TFWs for 2 years, working on a farm. I can’t complain, though-I was paid $16 an hour and had almost free housing, just $130 a month for a room with everything included. After 2 years, I got my PR and left the job. I’ve heard stories from friends about how some employers treated them and about the work conditions. Some employers didn’t even allow workers to turn on the furnace in winter, so they had to file a report. On some pig farms, there were holes in the roof, and snow was falling on the saws and piglets. However, once those conditions were reported, an independent company inspected the site a few days later, and they fired a whole branch of management. In USA way worse than that. I worked there too. The ammonia levels in the barns are 20 times higher than normal. It’s happening on poultry farms. When the guy reported it, they received a call, cleaned everything up, and left the fans running for a few days. Lots of people without documents, working on someone else’s SSN. They offered me to buy one if I’m willing to stay illegally and continue to work for 600$ back in 2016. Yeah.. Just wanted to share my experience.

[@c.9850]

Send them home

[@jimmiematho8082]

GO HOME👋👋👋

[@Torontolaw]

I was working nights to pay for law school cleaning kitchens at the distillery district and was replaced with a Mexican national.. I was told to work 30 days a month with zero days off and no holidays.. at cluny’s for 3000 a month or be replaced and I quit and was replaced for cheap labour.. those foreign workers are being used and abused and big company’s like clunys and all the restaurants they own at the distillery district are all being used and abused for max profit.. the distillery district is too blame

[@mandelish]

if you would like to report it ..where would you go?

[@Torontolaw]

@@mandelish CBSA is one place you can report it! depends what you want to report? Let me know! I couldn’t believe they did this to me a Law student at U OF T. Let me know if you need my help/ 😄

[@FranklinNomad]

Too many immigrants here

Everywhere... 0 is the amount that it should be. We have let our borders down, Our military is not protecting them.

[@annettevalstar8115]

Anyone working in Canada for any Employer should have at least the provincial minimum wage. Also the basic benefits paid by the employer. If the employer is providing housing then if people are unrelated, one person to a bedroom and at a reasonable rent, Other than that, when the contract is over, the worker should return to their home country unless they have needed skills and are clearly understandable in either French or English. If after two years in Canada they still can't speak our language they aren't trying to become Canadian.

[@robertrussell9336]

I know..................lets vote for the same two parties that have put us in this mess. Yah, that will fix it.

None of the other parties will make a difference if that is what you think, George Soros and Klaus Klaus Schwab are already in control.

[@cornstar1253]

It's not slavery if they're paid and free to leave.

[@MisterPerson-fk1tx]

An indentured servant can pay off his debt and be free. But indentured servitude is definitely slavery so maybe you don't understand the nuances of slavery, theres different kinds.

[@Elizabeth-vw1vb]

I agree 100%...

[@shanephillips4011]

​@@MisterPerson-fk1txnobody forced anybody to came here and work......

[@autonomoustronomous5264]

​@@MisterPerson-fk1tx unless someone is holding a gun to their head and forcing them to take these jobs it's ultimately their choice.

[@mjulianlee]

This is a earth-wide phenomenon.

[@mendoza4789]

corporate globalism

[@AndreInThe416]

With the taxes all other citizens are paying, maybe adjust your analysis.

[@ElaineShorter]

My best advice, DON'T come here!

[@mandelish]

Yes, don't it is bad for you because you will have a problem with practically everything here plus is cold and unfriendly.

[@alligator_pie]

As dysfunctional as it is, it’s not slavery. No one imprisoned and forced those people to come here.

[@LuckyLucy451]

'Contemporary slavery'? That is - and has been for a number of years now -' minimum wage - part time work' - requiring two and three jobs in order to pay one's way! When corporations discovered they could avoid paying benefits in this manner it became a way of life. Once upon a time a person could get a job - with benefits and plan a future - no longer! Never mind the migrant workers - need to get back to fair employment for all Canadians!

[@genbint]

yes indeed, just another liberal solution. canadians would want those jobs if the employer wouldn't be abusive at the first place.

[@MisterPerson-fk1tx]

Yah, it was worth my while to rake blueberries growing up. Now it's a job Canadians aren't willing to do because it doesn't pay enough. The solution isn't in the third world to that problem.

[@VonW-op3pd]

YES. SO SEND THEM BACK.

[@CHodgy]

My ex-gf's boss offered her an "arrangement". She hadnt seen her kids in over 3 years and she thought it would get even more difficult for her if she didnt agree to the terms. You know the rest...

Yes well feminism put her there, Who pushed for that?

[@Elizabeth-vw1vb]

Why are they here then???? Go home. Can't have it both ways.

[@joblo341]

50 years ago I worked in tree planting. We hired students and indians. They were paid piece work, x cents per tree. If you were lucky you got minimum wage. But, many of the contracting companies charged "room & board" for living in tents and inadequate food, up to $15-20 per day. If they showed up without the required work clothes, the employer will supply them. Same with smokes. At the end of the season we often had several, if not more, who barely broke even. I have no expectation that things have improved. For the last 15 years I worked with one of the temp job companies. Up to half of the rate they billed the customer was "overhead". We would show up at the office at 5:30-6am and sit. If there is no call I'd leave around noon, unpaid. They would send us out to prebooked calls, or impromptue calls that came in. What sort of work, everything: shovelling snow, construction, picking garbage on road side, warehouses, picking recyclables from conveyor, dishwashing etc. Unless it is pre booked for a span, we never know if we would get work any day. They picked who went out, so don't get on the dispatcher's bad side. No idea what kind of job we would be doing, so we could be working indoors or outdoors, or even in a warehouse freezer in the summer. For years, I would carry a small hockey bag with changes of clothes, until one employer complained "it could be" used for shoplifting. Gimme a break. We could be dropped, banned by a specific employer for no given reason. Yes, we got minimum wage, but not guaranteed hours. I had days where I got there at 6am, sat till noon or later when I got a late assignment that 10 hrs ran to 2am.

[@AmeliaStirling]

No people with hate in their heart shouldn’t be here.

[@Recklooseranch]

They all silently say nothing...in all work environments.

[@MisterPerson-fk1tx]

Were pretty loud when we're replaced by one. It's the media that calls you a racist or censors talk on the topic

[@Recklooseranch]

@MisterPerson-fk1tx I agree with you there. My father works for the laborers union. His quote..."we get 5 months Mac before being laid off...the engineers from other countries usually end up hiring the entire work site from their own country of choosing, ya we get unemployment coverage...but being laid off 4 times a year is alot...the works there..we are being laid off so they can hire cheaper labourers" Myself as a culinary chef...I would only get 5 month contracts while cooks from Barbados, Germany, Sudan, Jamaica all got 9 plus month contracts. As an army cook I've had to change entire meal plans to suit Muslim, vegan, allergies ect...not a problem..but the army in 2012 was filling up with new Canadians. Some from Cuba, Lebanon, Syria.. Ukraine

[@anthonymonaghan4964]

uhh the answer is YES

[@youtube7076]

when i talk to the migrant workers, either the asian or spanish language ones, they seem quite happy, the old folks really seem to enjoy the vineyards, and i ask them if they would like to live in canada, but they have NO DESIRE to do so, they enjoy the dorm life then are quite happy to go home in host cases. So even if you did offer them canada they would probably kindly refuse.

[@copperbrown1174]

Also these are not Canadian citizens this is ridiculous

[@PhilMante]

It's the great replacement.

And most by far are unaware and more so who is behind it... Shhhh they could shut it down.

[@PA-vq2jt]

You should probably return to Europe

[@PhilMante]

@@PA-vq2jt You misspelled Russia and you're 3 generations behind.

[@ROSARIOgoertzen]

Agree. Proactive insights.

[@logiczchance101]

everyone is in that nation, not just migrant workers. it is a system enshrined int he ethos of indenture servitude/exploitation. after all, they don't call them colonial citizens 'subjects of the crown' for no reason.

[@canadiansfor2A]

Liberals Canada!

[@Bridlee]

OMG news that acc talks about what ppl need need to hear! tip my hat

[@MisterPerson-fk1tx]

Maybe it's all the mockery about them being bought and paid for that is forcing their hand.

[@StuunZ]

Love you all⛈⛈

[@TRANSPORTCANADAGURU]

TFW, unconstitutional back to work legislation.... slavery yep

[@michaelwarren202]

Immigration isn't the problem... integration is.

[@chongisTiberius]

A little of column A, a little of column B

[@BuRgERKANGZ1488]

non whites are the problem

[@DeeSmith001]

​@@chongisTiberius a lot of column A

[@mandelish]

Not any more because just being here, just coming is a problem with housing, employment,health care so no, it is no longer a matter of integration.

[@MisterPerson-fk1tx]

1/3 of us weren't born here. When that happened to Tibet we used a special word to describe the phenomenon.

[@LarryMay-j5r]

Canadians voted for this hahahahaha

[@cliffkonkle3467]

Not all of us hahahaha.

[@dootdoot1867]

5.5m Canadians. 5.6m voted conservative. Just fyi.

[@hilcho]

Well if you look at the history books the Clan came from the "liberal" side of things

Tribe you mean?

[@henrygiesbrecht1963]

yes

[@ragingchimera8021]

You really have to ask?

[@AmeliaStirling]

I am Canadian and I have my beautiful Mexican daughter (my Mexican friend’s daughter actually) and her fiancée live in my house. He was working on a tree farm here in Alberta where the abuse was absolutely horrendous. Working them 150 hours in two weeks and not paying them overtime. Working them 22 hours in a day in -35 degree weather. Telling them that he pays for their visa and they have to pay back $5000 out of their minimal pay to cover this. The company does not pay anything for an LMIA or their visa. He finally put in a claim with the government and they agreed with the abuse but at the same time have allowed other Mexicans to continue to work for this company. I believe there are only 3 Mexicans there now as they are now hiring other foreign workers from other countries. I’m sorry if many of you don’t want foreign workers here but since the pandemic I see more and more Canadian people who just don’t want to work let alone in an industry that is actually hard work.

They should not have been here.

[@fortytwo244]

this is called capitalism, enjoy

[@MisterPerson-fk1tx]

Tax dollars subsidising foreigners to undercut citizen earning power is far from it. Ever hear about a guy named Adam Smith?

Don't forget the communism that pushes it.

[@ebpula]

The background music is unbearable.

[@jakethorburn3407]

Are we as modern civilization experiencing continued forms of institutional racism is more like it! I have a small farm business that does not use temp foreign workers, when explaining why my prices have to be what they are I sometimes wonder if people are ready to self reflect that their expectation for very cheap food implies that they wish to leverage others to work for very little money; I think this is at least a classist notion if not made outright racist by extention.

[@copperbrown1174]

Yeah check out Subway Tim Horton's Wendy's McDonald's gas stations truck driving come on NeverEnding nurseries on and on it goes I'd like a job I was born here and man I've had a hard time getting jobs I've gone to school and everything and boy I've had a hard time getting jobs oh because there's all the people from India and all the jobs now

Wendy's and Tim Hortons claim to be proudly Canadian... Same with Mary Browns, I don't go to any of these places not just because they don't hire our people but the food is wretched.

[@jiggycalzone8585]

What a load of tripe

[@Governmentiscorrupt]

Absolute nonsense

[@الايامدول-ح2ط]

Yes, Canada needs to stop judging other countries like Qatar and look into its shameful slavery system.😮😎

[@DavidTa2]

The most outrageous comments you could imagine are all right here. Shame on many of you.

[@Andre-vr1ul]

@@DavidTa2 cool story bro 😎

[@DavidTa2]

@@Andre-vr1ul Well, you know who you are. It's unfortunate that you can't feel that shame. If you could feel it's bite, you may start to realize we are all brothers. Even those you refer to as "bagel-makers". Shame.

[@Andre-vr1ul]

@@DavidTa2 10-4 taco bender ;)