There are a number of players when it comes to occupational health and safety: the company, the union, the [Editor's note: technical difficulties] when there are [Editor's note: technical difficulties] and the CSST. Each one is partially responsible for providing a worker with information. We must keep in mind that when a worker arrives, like Mr. Ngankoy, and is looking for a job in order to survive economically, the worker's priority is obviously to find a job, regardless of those conditions. It is often in very small workplaces where there is no union or employee association. The workers are therefore more or less on their own and they learn their rights in terms of occupational health and safety as events occur. The employer does not necessarily do it. It's the very large companies that have rules and health and safety standards compliance, while small businesses may easily break the rules because of concerns relating to competition, the market, survival, production, and so on.
In workplaces, we have to assume it is often the attending physician who is the gateway to compensation and healthcare for immigrant workers. Foreign workers do not have a family doctor. They enter the healthcare system through the emergency room and are passed from one doctor to another, getting diagnoses that are sometimes inconsistent. Each player bears a share of the responsibility. We cannot assume that immigrant workers have to make a bigger effort.