Canada's temporary foreign worker program linked to contemporary forms of slavery: UN

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A new report from the United Nations says Canada's temporary foreign worker program is a "breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery." Tomoya Obokata, United Nations special rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, says workers are being exploited, dealing with excessive working hours, less than minimum wage, and no access to health or social care as well as physical and sexual violence.
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@Akim_Volny 10 ай бұрын

Finally someone said the truth 👍👍🏿

@leegoldr 2 ай бұрын

Dont like it leave then all you do is leech

@markbrunette4802 10 ай бұрын

Slavery never left. We import it or another country uses their citizens. It was out sourced.

@sarahcarter1877 10 ай бұрын

If people didnt do the farm work none of us would have food on the table. How did we become so disconnected from everything? These people are harvesting the food that is on your table, they deserve respect and fair pair and to not live in fear.

@shauncameron8390 10 ай бұрын

Then you need to start paying "fair" prices.

@hasAcar 10 ай бұрын

I think we should all take our turn working in the fields. Can't let Canadians keep getting softer

@andrewtorrens7790 10 ай бұрын

@@shauncameron8390treating the workers well would barely put a dent in corporate profits. It has nothing to do with the price of goods. Did self-checkouts lower prices? Did automating customer service lines lower the cost of services? Did the automation in the auto industry lower the cost of a car? In each of those examples the cost of doing business was reduced immensely, while putting people out of work. Those savings went to the shareholders, not the consumer.

@andreasjackson8378 10 ай бұрын

If farmers paid a living wage

@ianshayman1035 10 ай бұрын

@@hasAcar wouldn't mind it. i can feel my body craving some all natural vitamin d.

@DannyPluto. 10 ай бұрын

The place that those workers are living at have bathrooms with no doors and some toilets don’t function. Unsanitary and unethical landlords

@DannyPluto. 10 ай бұрын

@@lilylily82341 there’s no doors built in to even break and the toilet don’t flush. It’s borderline slavery cause they sneakily refuse to follow the law of building codes and the owners want to cut back on spending being greedy.

@SnowWhite-hr4ho 10 ай бұрын

Time to force employers to hire Canadian people at least pay min wage and keep up the safety standards. Fine the billionaires

@pawel115 10 ай бұрын

Get real no Canadians will do that heavy labour intensive work for minimum wage hence we have foreign workers .

@josephsmith594 10 ай бұрын

Canadians would rather be lying on the sidewalk huffing glue out of a paper bag than work in a farmer’s field.

@shauncameron8390 10 ай бұрын

And at the same time, time to force Canadians to stop being cheapskates and pay the real price for their goods.

@hasAcar 10 ай бұрын

@@josephsmith594you're part of the problem

@hasAcar 10 ай бұрын

@@pawel115you're part of the problem. You don't believe in or like your neighbors very much😊

@bigbabbyjaime 10 ай бұрын

Oh your just figuring this out now??? Your like 10 years late on this story.

@cherylbristol5144 10 ай бұрын

Why is Canada not hiring their own people foe temporarily employment for harvesting food?

@Sam19509 10 ай бұрын

Lol because they don’t want the jobs - hard work, long hours, low pay and no benefits.😂

@scottshorten9962 10 ай бұрын

they wont do it

@pawel115 10 ай бұрын

@@Sam19509Exactly I live in Niagara most Canadians last day or 2 at best too hard work for little money simple as that.

@alwong732 10 ай бұрын

@@pawel115yes most Canadians still have a choice and not be slaves

@BigJZ86 10 ай бұрын

Capital

@Sam19509 10 ай бұрын

Did Trudeau get the title Special Rapporteur from the UN who hires people like this guy for those kind of jobs? 😂

@deborahross6596 10 ай бұрын

I'm a born Canadian citizen and I have seen employers treat temporary foreign workers, treated like slaves. It's DISGUSTING!!!!

@JJJohnson441 10 ай бұрын

Jamaicans saying they are enslaved? lol. I guess they expected Canada to give them free PR status.

@sheilagiffin5552 10 ай бұрын

They didn't visit Southwestern, Ontario. My first stop would have been Essex County and Chatham-Kent

@SMac86 10 ай бұрын

Disgusting, never trust an industry to do the moral thing.

@shauncameron8390 10 ай бұрын

Or local consumers as they need their goods low-priced.

@kubyoindiya3269 10 ай бұрын

@@shauncameron8390what bullshit. government makes decisions after voters get them in but it's not the problem with lowering product prices, it's the way in which they've done it that's shameful.

@TheStraightArmy 10 ай бұрын

HOUSE AND EMPLOY CANADIAN CITIZENS FIRST! SAVE CANADA! STOP TRUDEAU!!

@BigJZ86 10 ай бұрын

Harper brought this program in with Poilievre in support.

@nomiko5387 10 ай бұрын

Labour cists should be increased. The Canadian labour should express and assert their right against Canadian government. This is pure slavery

@test40323 10 ай бұрын

Thank you Mr. Obakata for bringing this to our attention. What recommendations are presented?

@bradcanning875 10 ай бұрын

Most of us who have a few decades of experience watching Conservative governments allow corporate slavery in conjugation with their union hating political ideology know when it began. It enslaved us to where we are today. With the vast majority of Canadians not born to wealth only having a living wage because they have a union job. We are all slaves or in the 1%. Time to open your eyes to that reality.

@JohnDoe3-1-4 10 ай бұрын

He hasn’t brought anything to anyones attention this has been known since the systems inception and it’s far worse than what is being discussed here as well. Let’s just say that developed countries have an incentive to keep undeveloped/developing countries undeveloped be it for resource exploitation,cheap labour,cheap manufacturing/products. Those at the top need people at the bottom in order for them to be propped up. To answer your question there is no solution, countries will simply find another loophole and get away with it. First there was slavery, then indentured servants, and now migrant workers.

@test40323 10 ай бұрын

@@JohnDoe3-1-4 , We need farmers. Not all farmers in Canada treat migrant workers poorly. There are no excuses to those who don't despite higher marginal costs. Question is 'are these offenders in the minority or majority and what can be done?'

@Blockchainer999 2 ай бұрын

Haha do you have other things to do than thanking news anchors and state actors. Mr ObaKata.

@scarecrow2275 10 ай бұрын

What's worse... Hiring migrant workers to pick crops or forcing children to mine cobalt?

@scarecrow2275 10 ай бұрын

@@MazesSA-zz9sq Most farmers do! You must live in the city?!

@Nothing-fp7jg 10 ай бұрын

this problem has been going on for decades in Canada and it is problematic. However, you make a good point and that is the one of the many inconvenient truths of EVs - the conditions of workers, and use of child labour, in African cobalt mines.

@scarecrow2275 10 ай бұрын

@@Nothing-fp7jg I know personally, I would never own one, but that's based on an informed decision. If more people knew the truth about their devices, I don't think social media or technology would be nearly as successful as it is.

@BigJZ86 10 ай бұрын

This all sounds like capitalism to me

@almendratlilkouatl 10 ай бұрын

in BC even so called lawyers who claim to defend workers rights would treat us like garbage, we still need the work tho

@Womba1009 10 ай бұрын

Working for a wage is wage slavery.

@yl9154 10 ай бұрын

Funny, lots of justification of these work conditions in the comments. So I guess, foreign workers being sexually abused is deemed OK by those that don't see a problem with this system. In Canada as in many country, a person on a temporary work visa is extremely vulnerable. Having your country branded with "slavery" is hard to digest. But maybe the cure for this indigestion is to fix the problem rather than deny it or justify it. And if we do not trust the UN Rapporteur, then let us have our own enquiry. Apparently, it would not take two years to complete it.

@idkoff-road6483 10 ай бұрын

"Apparently, it would not take two years to complete it."..... This is the Canadian govt we're talking about. It will take 2 years just to get out of committee lol. Then another year for the study to take place, another year for the report to be rendered, which of course will be heavily redacted. Then about six months to ensure the report is woke enough. An independent Canadian inquiry will only say what we as Canadians want to hear... we are great, nothing to see here. You think our govt really wants to know what's going on... or that any meaningful action will take place?

@mikelundrigan2285 10 ай бұрын

No one has said that is ok! But describing less than ideal conditions as “ slavery “ is a gross misrepresentation in the vast majority of cases! Like anywhere, there are a small minority of “ bad “ actors but the vast majority are not as it is not in their own self interest! Any claims of “ criminal “ activities by the employers should be investigated and prosecuted if justified by the authorities!

@davidgood5390 10 ай бұрын

Some of the high end Canadian hotels do the same practices to temporary foreign and Canadian citizen workers.

@441rider 10 ай бұрын

There are thousands of Canadians going to day work services that would take this work if paid to standards. Like indentured slavery?

@Flying_Scorpion 10 ай бұрын

This needs to be talked about more. Thank you for putting a spotlight on this.

@fikaboojohn5713 10 ай бұрын

Reporter is tone deaf, what are you talking about people are lucky to come to Canada for work, your country is lucky to have hard working people making it possible for your people to eat!

@Tylenol888 10 ай бұрын

Thats also my thinking. Canada is very lucky to have someone to do this job. And it will help to propel back the economy and food security.

@sivan1127 10 ай бұрын

I've heard about this. Men and women were taken and denied their passports and are well worked until their visa expires. Sometimes even beyond that. The workers are completely denied access to contact anyone nor are they given their documents back.

@InFamou5Killer 10 ай бұрын

not surprised

@matthewst537 10 ай бұрын

You always got to look for the middle ground not full on slavery but same conditions

@jasonpiro3618 10 ай бұрын

I moved to BC and was not so proud of Canada anymore. The types of things i've seen... Offering workers to try smoking meth is absolutely disturbing and I hope the people in charge get offed.

@badchiney841 10 ай бұрын

God knows farm workers need better pay its really slavery 😢

@ra-js1vf 6 ай бұрын

How to sign up and get on the program?

@jessicawinslet684 10 ай бұрын

I don't see him going undercover

@carolinarico9564 10 ай бұрын

The journalist looks like really disconnect and annoyed by the term "slavery" for sure she doesn't know what it's like to begin as a migrant worker in Canada and I liked the way the interviewer educated her.

@user-di7in8ef7y 10 ай бұрын

as a smalll farmer, have to say, so hard get people to work in canada in the farm. even you find someone, eight hour shift , the workers may work 3 hours for you also i'm not benefiting from foreign worker programm, it is not easy for small farm to go through all the paper work and documents to get someone here. with all the increased cost of labour , gas , and extrem weather, very hard for small farms to surveive, wish canadian politicians can see the struggling situation of canadian small farms and support them

@XxxXxx-fm3wo 10 ай бұрын

Elitist like the Liberals want to destroy the farms so that we can destroy and control more food, making it only available for the rich and the elitist like Justin Trudeau.

@rodimusgamer7620 5 ай бұрын

Absolutely, if it isn’t the government, then it’s corporations, I remember when I was in school, our teacher told us about how Monsanto sued a Saskatchewan farmer for “theft” when the seeds of Monsanto plants were blown onto his property by the wind resulting some of his crops being Monsanto ones. It’s absolutely disgraceful.

@teresawilson3893 10 ай бұрын

Has anybody ever stopped to think about who put that bottle of wine together you should see them out there all over Niagara and Vineland. They work their butts off for $15 an hour six days a week 14 hour days in every type of disgusting weather and these vineyards rake it in!

@kanatajames9854 4 ай бұрын

So true brother I was one of those workers he telling the truth

@heartborne123 10 ай бұрын

and "the slaves" return each year, it appears that slavery is not that bad in Canada

@StanClarke 10 ай бұрын

Yeah, because they have to feed their families and attain a liveable wage to survive back home. No reason to treat them like garbage. These migrant workers are the reason we're able to eat comfortably. It's about time they're given the respect they deserve.

@heartborne123 10 ай бұрын

@@StanClarke but this is different from calling them slaves, right?

@asrafulhaque6295 9 ай бұрын

Want to ask what would be the future for temporary foreign workers to keep their status after finishing work contract is there any easy tr to pr pathways? Working hard paying high taxes end of the day no status

@ricardofacey3486 10 ай бұрын

I am currently in british Colombia on a slave plantation we need HELP

@XxxXxx-fm3wo 10 ай бұрын

No that's just a McDonald's, you're in a McDonald's!

@panddmorales6607 10 ай бұрын

Surprise, surprise. Now tell me something I don't know. Canada and the US have a "cheap" food policy with a great human cost, which really translates into modern day slavery.The TFW are workers, as per law have no basic rights as the rest of us Canadians. Employers have expanded their facilities with the expectations that this (heavily lobbied) program will continue. .

@miller486a 10 ай бұрын

Question. Did they choose to come knowing the details, how many are repeat labour's, and when they go home the money they make they live good.

@Eric-lx8hp 10 ай бұрын

It may be better then where the labourers are from but that may mean utter destitution in 3rd world countries and doesn’t give the right for rich cdn employers taking advantage of that

@miller486a 10 ай бұрын

@Eric-lx8hp rich?, in comparison, but are they not doing the same when they go back home? It's also a way to keep costs down for the consumer. Would you be happy paying $10 for an apple. (Yes, it's a number taken out just for effect only)

@Sam19509 10 ай бұрын

The Temporary Foreign Workers are making less than minimum wage because their housing costs and sometimes food are covered by the employer. For example TFWs who work in farms and construction typically live in outhouses or trailers with bunk beds shared among a bunch of them.

@bradleyfriesen3125 10 ай бұрын

Do you have a clue. I have been in a family business market gardens for 45 plus years, health inspectors come by yearly to check on accommodations and workers have always made good money, most air fare is covered and overtime is paid after 48 hours in Alberta, they buy their own groceries I believe most farm hands from Canada in most cases aren’t paid overtime as it’s seasonal work and requires many hours during planting and harvesting and If everyone wants to Pay twice the price then farmers can sure set that up. Food brought in from other countries where people are made much less just like our clean oil in Canada where employees have rights verses foreign oil I am so tired of ill informed people. All wages are set by the govt so please educate yourself before making accusations and commenting on what you don’t know.

@Tribuneoftheplebs 10 ай бұрын

That's the same logic slavers used to not pay the slaves. "I feed em and give em a hut to sleep in" 👨‍🦳

@bradleyfriesen3125 10 ай бұрын

Well a I’ve said there also paid hourly and in most cases farms give them longer and more hours as that’s what they want their away from home and don’t want to just sit around. After being out for 5 years I still have 6-7 guys calling me wanting more work. So couldn’t have been treated to poorly. All I’ll say is whose the guy getting paid for that did the report and how come no farms in Alberta, Saskatchewan or Manitoba? We’ve had one guy come back 30 years at our home farm.

@mariahung2946 10 ай бұрын

this is disgrace

@ADavid42 10 ай бұрын

Bosses may not directly own the bodies anymore, but if they own all means of production (ressources, work equipment, housing and banks) it's just about the same. In credit-based economies, it _is_ the same.

@shauncameron8390 10 ай бұрын

They own the means, because they put up the money to acquire them.

@ADavid42 10 ай бұрын

@@shauncameron8390LoL. In the majority of cases, they inherited the $, the contacts and the ressources. In any case, you can't justify _exploitation and abuse_ with a desire to own a yacht. People > profits.

@shauncameron8390 10 ай бұрын

@@ADavid42 Because their parents intended them to have that money. It's not their fault your parents didn't have the foresight or sense to do the same for you.

@ADavid42 10 ай бұрын

@@shauncameron8390I guess you _do_ justify exploitation of the poor. How Christian of you.

@shauncameron8390 4 ай бұрын

@@ADavid42 While you justify envy of "the rich." How Marxist of you? And by the way, Marx was from the upper class and had nothing in common with the poor.

@mid-westmusic3472 10 ай бұрын

Maybe they shouldn’t even try working in Canada.

@justinpenney6841 10 ай бұрын

Yet I see no one talking about china’s actual slave labour

@MommaKnowsBestest 10 ай бұрын

Yikes.

@user-ek1to4gq3h 10 ай бұрын

UN is a broad organisation I get it, but sometimes perhaps need to have the priorities actually right and actually investing and discuss exploring solutions instead of jsut chiming in on countries like Canada who is for all purpose better standards then say others

@cindycreateforlife 10 ай бұрын

He surveilled 100 workers and made these conclusions. Did he also survey Canadian citizens of farm working background!

@shari9721 10 ай бұрын

Why would he survey Canadian Citizens of farming backgrounds when they and their experiences are completely different and have nothing to do with this topic ?

@TagusMan 10 ай бұрын

DEI is MIA when it comes to real slavery.

@rickboer7715 6 ай бұрын

Canada's dirty secret

@danpollock839 10 ай бұрын

Is this the "New" thing to be angry about?.....this week?....

@khaeyenen3163 4 ай бұрын

Lol. And they say I'm forever crazy.

@mikelundrigan2285 10 ай бұрын

He describes this as “Slavery” yet no one is “forcing” these temporary workers to come work against their will! The fact “recruiters” are charging large fees has got little to do with Canada! That is an agreement between the recruiter and the worker! No doubt some employers are not treating them as well as they would like but that happens to locals too! If the employer requires seasonal help, it is not in their own self interest to treat these workers so badly they refuse to return the next season! There are many, many countries where the locals are treated much, much worse!!

@shauncameron8390 10 ай бұрын

And whatever legal disputes that may arise have to be taken up with the judicial system of the worker and recruiter's home country.

@johncam8420 10 ай бұрын

Slavery is pretty common in Canada. So many debt slaves all around. Insane mortgages, and oh, you can loose your job if you have the wrong opinion. Maybe, just maybe, one day our news organizations will look outside of immigrants and tfws to realize conditions are pretty bad for Canadians too. I doubt it.

@AuntyKsTarot 10 ай бұрын

wow the privilege of thinking having a mortgage is similar.

@amossimon3438 10 ай бұрын

This is not only in Canada. Its.like that in Australia New Zeland.many Hawaiian Islands and many places around the world. ..Its not only Canada.that is corrup.. This is Captalist.. We work the Immigrants from day light till dark. For starvation wages. .Them we charge top prices for fruit vegetables and dairy and other goods. .This is the rich and elite's SMASH AND GRAB.

@jojologo2857 10 ай бұрын

That's not the same, broo-- no comparison

@hasAcar 10 ай бұрын

Should of hear the most recent cross country check up. They only wanted to hear from immigrants

@shauncameron8390 10 ай бұрын

Bad comparison. Most debt slaves are slaves to their own personal greed and poor management of finances.

@MysterMalik Ай бұрын

Canada went straight gcc 😂.

@Gryronaut 6 ай бұрын

Messed up.

@tertur2957 10 ай бұрын

They are not forced to come here, they come on their own free will.

@shauncameron8390 10 ай бұрын

By and large.

@RomanesEuntDomus. 10 ай бұрын

Nobody's forcing them to return year after year 😂

@shauncameron8390 10 ай бұрын

Just like no one forced them to seek work in Canada in the first place.

@GennadiCitrus 7 ай бұрын

empty stomach does 🤣 losers, right?

@lezmark8605 8 сағат бұрын

is Mr. Tomoya has been to Saudi arabia and Other GCC countries? coz those countries are worse.

@tertur2957 10 ай бұрын

Tomboya Obokata sounds Japanese to me. Isn’t Japan the country that used extremely cruel slave labour during WW2? Canadian soldiers captured at Hong Kong were used as slaves in coal mines and shipyards in Japan while being starved and tortured. Other nationalities were treated the same including Indians, Chinese, Koreans, Australians, NZ, Dutch, British, Americans……..

@ijji4615 10 ай бұрын

Ethically high-fluted topic. Some kind of work like this need labours. They knew what they come for and work for they $'s. They earn my respect, not those standing at the traffic lights asking for a dollar or two.

@libshastra 10 ай бұрын

It's exploitative, that's true. Is there human trafficking, there's no doubt about it. Have we done anything to address it? Not so much. Is it slavery? I think that's stretching it by a mile.

@DmitiryPopyoutopov 10 ай бұрын

Yeah slavery is the wrong word.

@redneckguy2169 10 ай бұрын

10$ bread to fix this

@ra-js1vf 6 ай бұрын

Enroll me

@OK-hl6qd 10 ай бұрын

of couuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurse!!!!!!

@jamiehill9137 10 ай бұрын

This is freaking funny coming from this dude. Like I think all of us are slaves for money....and let's face it most people won't do farm work....it's hard and little pay. And why little pay....because if the cost of labor goes up so does food prices. They come willingly for the work. And send the money home.

@shari9721 10 ай бұрын

They come because they have no other options , that doesnt exactly make them "willing" . We have standards and regulations and laws etc and if the working conditions and living conditions and wages are all not acceptable or legal or allowed to Canadian Citizens then they shouldnt be acceptable or allowed to happen to anyone in our country . People used to only eat the produce that was in season and ready now people think they should have the right and choice to every exotic fruit and vegetable yr round and that people being badly treated and their human rights violated is perfectly acceptable , all that matters is that spoiled Canadians get to continue living off the suffering and abuse of others .

@shauncameron8390 10 ай бұрын

@@shari9721 Mainly in their home countries. But they were not forced against their will to take the job.

@stevebyra7795 10 ай бұрын

#sunnyways

@very_awake 10 ай бұрын

Lol

@HungTran-39 10 ай бұрын

🇻🇳❤️🇨🇦!

@AmongRevenants 10 ай бұрын

I suppose xi and his imps will have something to say about that ke

@sarahdescoteaux1840 10 ай бұрын

Seem on par with the current government... oh, sunny ways 🤔

@shauncameron8390 10 ай бұрын

@@Grant_S_M The TFW program is a government initiative.

@animatejackman9685 10 ай бұрын

Earn your keep

@CanadianBear47 10 ай бұрын

the people that are inslaving u peoples give me rights lols are serious.

@CanadianBear47 10 ай бұрын

u dont say lols fun wee good for us, people in different governments love to tote it like wow we soo yeah man we are good. lols not a surprise assuming canada is ok when there is no accountability, nothing on mantoba sask and alberta probly worse than other places just on culture.

@CA_Watchman 10 ай бұрын

What?

@scottmccambley764 10 ай бұрын

Didn't know there were a lot of farms in the middle of Downtown Toronto. Yet the same workers for the most part return year after year in most cases. Time to leave the UN for good.

@DannyPluto. 10 ай бұрын

1st world countries don’t leave the UN

@stormrunner0029 10 ай бұрын

You will see this in almost any field where there is manual labour. There will always be complainers. There will always ‘abusive’ bosses, because someone feels they are better then they really are. A few of these videos shown showed people working at a snails pace. How is a company supposed to make money at that pace. This is driving the prices up due to labour costs. Automation of these jobs is just around the corner, and none of them will be working. “Go woke go broke” rings a bell.

@amossimon3438 10 ай бұрын

No one comes to work in the morning.. With the intentions of doing a bad job. .There is a reason why. ..We must learn to help and improve that worker. .You will find a job some were that he can do and be productive.Treat them more like family. and not like low class immigrants. . When.the boats.are docked at the harbour. waiting to be filled up for export. .Its good have happy well payed group of workers. That know what they are doing. . You have a short window to make if. or break it for the season. It's better be on the right side of your work force.