I just returned from Kelowna in British Columbia, where this year they're receiving 800 workers to pick cherries and apples. That work has traditionally been done by people from Quebec, all these years. Kelowna has a huge community centre for people who speak French. Yet the growers and the orchardists are moving to temporary workers because they consider the labour coming from Quebec unreliable. Unreliable means that if they're not treated properly, they move to another farm. I think that is the reason. This is not unreliable. People from Quebec have the choice, if the working conditions are oppressive, to go and work elsewhere, while farm workers from Mexico and the Caribbean don't have that luxury. They're tied to their employers; they're indentured labour, real indentured labour.
On April 8th, 2008. See this statement in context.