Lawsuit denounces Canada’s migrant workers program as modern-day slavery
When Black and Brown field hands were recruited to Canada to fill labor shortages in the 1960s, a migrant worker program was established to inextricably tie workers to their specific employers. The tied visa program for migrant workers still stands today. However, as reported by Al Jazeera, a light has been shone on the “racist and discriminatory” origins of this tied employment scheme and the modern slavery conditions it props up by a proposed
