Migrant Workers In Canada

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Migrant Workers and the children of those who have immigrated to Canada, face countless issues with their human rights. The rights that should be entitled to them are denied and taken away, and they are treated as less than human. Migrant workers in many cases have faced numerous violations of their rights, and have been abused in a variety of different ways. The employers that hire them often abuse them without any repercussions from the law or the government. The reason behind this lack of action is because the system used to monitor their rights is a complaint system used by most provinces (Leo 2014). This system is often unused because once employers have found that their workers have complained using the system they will usually be fired

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