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Third migrant farm worker dies as Canada reaches deal with Mexico

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Title (Dublin Core)

Third migrant farm worker dies as Canada reaches deal with Mexico

Description (Dublin Core)

Article discussing the disproportionate number of temporary foreign workers infected with coronavirus and the efforts to mitigate this. The temporary foreign worker program has been controversial in Canada for years, for a number of reasons including condition and treatment of workers, immigration status, the employment of foreign nationals over Canadian residents and citizens etc. Like many societal issues the pandemic has brought the ethics and practice of the program to a flash-point.

"The outbreak has triggered heightened scrutiny of Canada’s temporary foreign worker program and the conditions in which foreign labourers live and work. In Ontario alone, more than 630 migrant farm workers have been infected with COVID-19; two men from Mexico – Bonifacio Eugenio Romero, 31, and Rogelio Munoz Santos, 24 – have died. The third worker who died is Juan Lopez Chaparro, 55; he had been coming to Canada since 2010 and is survived by his wife and four children, the Migrant Rights Network said in a release Monday.

"Federal Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough told The Globe and Mail last week that Ottawa will overhaul the temporary foreign worker program, including through more surprise inspections of working and living conditions at farms that employ migrant workers. Mexico had temporarily stopped sending more workers, until Canadian officials got a handle on the outbreaks and ensured people are properly paid while they’re in isolation."

Date (Dublin Core)

June 21, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Kathryn Blaze Baum
Tavia Grant

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Hope Gresser

Type (Dublin Core)

news article

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-third-migrant-farm-worker-dies-as-canada-reaches-deal-with-mexico/
https://web.archive.org/web/20200704214129/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-third-migrant-farm-worker-dies-as-canada-reaches-deal-with-mexico/

Publisher (Dublin Core)

The Globe and Mail

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Immigration
English Health & Wellness
English Cities & Suburbs
English Government Federal
English Agriculture

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

food supply
PPE
foreign workers
Ottawa
Mexico
Canada

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

farm
PPE
working conditions
food supply
foreign workers
immigration

Collection (Dublin Core)

English Canada
en Survivor Stories

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Refugee advocates beseech bylaw to 'warn and inform' after man handed $880 fine

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

06/22/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

07/04/2020
03/09/2021

Date Created (Dublin Core)

06/21/2020

Item sets

Covid 19
Canada
Teaching

This item was submitted on June 22, 2020 by Hope Gresser using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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