Item
Third migrant farm worker dies as Canada reaches deal with Mexico
Media
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."
"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)
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)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
06/22/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
07/04/2020
03/09/2021
Date Created (Dublin Core)
06/21/2020
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
Click here to view the collected data.