COVID-19’s impact on migrant workers adds urgency to calls for permanent status

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Editorial

Publication Date

2-24-2021

Abstract

Migrant workers in Canada have suffered tremendously during COVID-19. Each year, some 85,000 low-wage migrant workers come to Canada under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. They do essential work in many fields including health care, in-home care, agriculture, food processing, cleaning services, delivery services and construction. Thousands more are undocumented.

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The Conversation (theconversation.com)

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