In one situation, we had a number of people coming in from South America—if I'm not mistaken, it was Colombia—to work in the country. They came in on tourist visas and as tourists and then worked in Alberta. One of those individuals got hurt and came to our office. He had twisted his arm or cut his arm in some way, and he had been sitting in a hotel room.
Finally, the employer, who didn't want to deal with it because he didn't have workers' compensation, decided to ship this individual back. Later we heard that he actually lost his arm because of a workplace injury that was not treated because the employer did not want the individual going to a hospital, did not want to report it to workers' compensation and decided the best thing to do was to ship this individual out of the country.
This is an extreme situation, but there are individuals who get hurt on job sites throughout the year. Some of them are undocumented and some of them are temporary foreign workers who are not legally supposed to be working in the construction industry. They do get hurt on these sites. We do hear these types of stories. We heard about that situation directly from the individual as well, so it was not from a third party that we were hearing it. It was directly from the individual.
