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Leyland Cecco in Toronto

UN envoy calls Canada’s use of migrant workers ‘breeding ground for slavery’

people working in a field with a tractor behind them
Temporary foreign workers from Mexico plant strawberries on a farm in Mirabel, Quebec, in May 2020. Photograph: Graham Hughes/AP

Canada’s reliance on temporary foreign workers is “breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery”, a UN special rapporteur has warned, amid growing calls to overhaul the controversial program.

The damning report from the UN investigator Tomoya Obokata found that deep power imbalances and discriminatory practice in Canada cuts costs for companies but exploits workers from the global south.

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