The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal is in the midst of hearing a case involving a Jamaican citizen who died while working in Canada as a temporary agricultural worker. The worker died in August 2002 after a farm skid fell on him. At the time of his death, he was working for a tobacco farm just outside of Brantford,…
A federal court this week will hear a challenge of the decision of Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (“HRSDC”) to allow 201 Chinese workers into Canada. The case involves HD Mining, a Vancouver-based mining company, which came under intense public scrutiny for its hiring of hundreds of Chinese nationals to work at its Murray…
Canada has taken in increasingly higher numbers of temporary foreign workers. The growth has been so significant in recent years that the annual intake of temporary foreign workers in Canada now consistently surpasses the number of permanent resident arrivals. There are widely differing opinions as to whether this is a positive, negative or neutral development. Setting…
The number of temporary foreign workers in Canada has increased exponentially over the last 10 years, and in particular since 2006. There are now over 250,000 foreigners entering Canada each year under a temporary work permit, and approximately half a million temporary foreign workers in the country at any given time.
As international trade continues to grow, so does the number of people crossing borders. And I am not referring to tourists. Instead, I am talking about the increasing number of workers relocating between an organization’s various global offices. This is happening because, as companies expand to new markets or have their production needs satisfied across…