You've touched on something we discovered in Ontario, which is that new immigrants coming in as garment workers were being exploited by jobbers. They were making pennies at piecework, and they were literally held captive. One of the attempts to resolve that was labour laws that addressed their right to collective bargaining and equal or adequate pay. Of course, we lost all those laws. Do we need to look across this nation at our labour laws and say that women, migrants, people in these really low-paid jobs need to have access to collective bargaining and the freedom this brings to keep them out of these kinds of tragic situations?
On October 19th, 2006. See this statement in context.