There are two major issues. One is that EI is not available, including paternal and maternal benefits, which used to be available and then the government took it away from migrant farm workers.
The other issue is that the way it's situated, basically when you're on a work permit and you finish your work, you are unemployed for four months, but benefits don't travel across borders, essentially. That is why so many migrant farm workers came here, if CERB was accessible to them.
They knew they were going to die. We received hundreds of calls saying, “If we come, we know we'll die.” They were right because three are dead, but they came because CERB was not accessible to them. Therefore, EI, CPP and all benefits need to be portable and need to be accessible to migrants.
The reason that's not happening is the way the system is created, but also bank accounts. You deposit CPP in Canadian bank accounts. How do you access it in Mexico? There are some very simple technical issues, but there are these overall issues around portability.