We recommend the adoption of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers, because that would immediately enable us to improve the human rights situation. In addition, the live-in caregiver program sets conditions, and it is the federal government that sets those conditions that place women in situations of vulnerability. There are permits naming a single employer, as a result of which the worker is virtually powerless in the relationship. The obligation to live in the employer's home is also a major problem which increases vulnerability and makes the power imbalance enormous, which violates the basis of labour law and human rights. There is also the fact that the person does not have access to permanent residence. That person lives in a power relationship, once again, that results in a power imbalance that leaves her vulnerable.
