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The shame of our disposable workers
… thousands… come to Canada every year under the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP)… Evidence suggests many workers who are hurt or become ill while in Canada are simply sent back home. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the SAWP and its shameful legacy needs to be addressed: we are treating the migrant workers who grow and harvest our food like disposable, subhuman units of labour… workers currently lack permanent immigration status, full health coverage, and access to Employment Insurance (even though EI payments are deducted from their wages).
Tags: economy, globalization, Health, ideology, immigration, rights, standard of living
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The price of acceptance: Immigrants with disabilities in a system of disadvantage
Denying people with disabilities the right to live in Canada reinforces the stereotype that disability is a “burden,” a deficit within the individual, and an economic risk to Canada health and social services. To change this rhetoric, we need to examine the barriers around a person that prevent them from being included… When we view those who think or act “differently” as deficient, we lose the opportunity to discover new ways to address social and economic problems.
Tags: disabilities, ideology, immigration, mental Health, rights, standard of living
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Refugee health reversal an important step toward coverage for all
After years of public pressure and the unprecedented mobilization of health care providers, as of April 1, 2016, the federal government is restoring the refugee health program which was drastically cut in 2012… Just as the denial of health-care coverage to refugee claimants was wrong, so too is the ongoing denial of health-care coverage to people… on the basis of their immigration status. It is time for a comprehensive policy solution to bring about a truly universal health-care system.
Tags: disabilities, Health, ideology, immigration, mental Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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Why are companies competing with EI for workers?
Temporary foreign workers are attractive to an employer because the worker has virtually no rights. Once they come to Canada to work, a TFW can’t leave one company for a better job elsewhere and they can’t quit or they’ll be sent home… What [Employers] want is to be able to bring in workers year round to avoid Canadian workers all together. This policy would drive down wages and cause more people looking for a decent paycheque to move…
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, immigration, participation, standard of living
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Don’t copy America: Canada needs fewer guest workers, more citizens
Both Canada and the U.S. are high immigration countries – but… we have far more immigrants, yet far less social dislocation. Canada welcomes large numbers of newcomers into the Canadian family, in a legal and orderly manner, whereas the U.S. only accepts relatively small numbers of legal immigrants, while simultaneously being home to huge number of long-term, illegal entrants… Canada should be… doing the opposite.
Tags: economy, globalization, immigration, participation, rights, standard of living
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Integration: A New Strategy
Refugees are especially in need of de facto (and eventually legal) citizenship recognition… The most successful and non-controversial refugee groups are those that are transformed, as quickly as possible, into regular “economic” immigrants: If they’re included quickly in the employment, education and housing systems of the established immigrant community, they will be more likely to stabilize their lives, give up their temporary mindset and become valuable members of their communities.
Tags: crime prevention, globalization, immigration, multiculturalism, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Canada’s Warm Embrace of Refugees
The simple but powerful words with which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada greeted the first group of Syrians resettled under an expedited program stood in sharp contrast to the misery and monumental injustice the earlier images represent… “This is something that we are able to do in this country because we define a Canadian not by a skin color or a language or a religion or a background, but by a shared set of values, aspirations, hopes and dreams that not just Canadians but people around the world share.”
Tags: featured, globalization, ideology, immigration, multiculturalism
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No surprise here: Canada a turnoff for some refugees
… refugees are not freeloading hordes seeking to break down the doors of the West, as some would portray it. Rather, they’re badly jarred families trying to calculate the best path to safety and stability. Those who agree to the unsettling ordeal of a transoceanic move will be the few who have knowledge and connections in Canada… the policies denying health care to asylum seekers and the cruel temporary-worker rules and family-reunification restrictions are well known overseas, and the best-qualified people would rather go elsewhere.
Tags: globalization, ideology, immigration, standard of living
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Trudeau begins to reverse Harper’s ugly legacy of over-reaching legislation
Given the growing number of court challenges to these laws, the Liberals should fix what’s wrong, as speedily as possible, then turn their attention to other issues… Here are a few places to start: Bill C-51… Citizenship… Sentencing… Refugees… On Harper’s watch Canadian law grew ever more heedless of civil rights, contemptuous of the judiciary, unreasonably punitive, and unfriendly to minorities and refugees. Canadians voted for something better on Oct. 19.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, featured, ideology, immigration, multiculturalism
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End of a Painful Era
… the Harper government waged an all-out war on civil society, parliamentary democracy, the environment, organized labour, First Nations, and anyone else that might pose an obstacle to its economic and social policy objectives. First among them was Harper’s plan to reposition Canada as a pro-business, deregulated, low-wage “energy superpower,” followed closely by the party’s ideological commitment to small government and low taxes.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, immigration, participation, rights, standard of living
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