They are often lured to Canada under the pretense of being able to build a better life for themselves. What happens in these situations is all of these administrative factors that we've been hearing about: the labour violations, tax misclassifications, immigration and compliance. All of these things basically don't reveal themselves in their full picture to any one of those entities. Law enforcement often doesn't have visibility to that, to be able to look at these pictures from a Criminal Code assessment standpoint.
These workers come to Canada. They are promised that they will be supported to follow proper immigration pathways and that they'll have great jobs, but when they arrive in our country, all the things that we've been hearing about today happen. Then they become so fearful of reporting that ultimately these cases end up falling into the gaps between these various jurisdictions and administrative processes, but the signs are there.
