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Doug
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posted 31 August 2008 03:03 PM      Profile for Doug   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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He thought of his first week in Canada, eight men in the basement of a Toronto house sleeping four to a bed, their passports taken from them. Then they were trucked north to their new home – a filthy, abandoned farmhouse in the middle of nowhere.

Now, bumping down a dirt road in August 2007, Canilang mustered the nerve to ask Bob De Rosa, his labour boss, when the first paycheque was coming.

"Don't you guys know that I spent $4,000 to get you?" De Rosa snapped back.

What Canilang experienced last summer is an all too-common situation – foreign workers brought to Canada under false pretences and exploited.


http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/Article/488074


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remind
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posted 31 August 2008 03:31 PM      Profile for remind     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Funny how all of this started 2 years ago, under the new CPC rules, and that the CPC government cannot find anyone at fault.
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munroe
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posted 01 September 2008 08:02 AM      Profile for munroe     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
http://tinyurl.com/6zgxly

Even the Vancouver Sun is in on the act. Of course, there is nothing wrong with the guest worker system, only with unscrupulous agents. After all, they can't very well contradict their corporate masters.


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