Citizenship and Immigration committee  Can we do a conclusion?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The commission is currently conducting two investigations into allegations of discrimination in the exercise of rights of seasonal agricultural workers. We are also examining the situation at [Inaudible - Editor] and the protection of live-in caregivers regarding occupational hea

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'd like to answer.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  For eight or 10 months, there is indeed a turnover of foreign seasonal workers. They mainly come to work in the agricultural sector. You're right. However, and this is also true for old stock Quebec workers, regional agreements are reached with processing businesses which must pr

Citizenship and Immigration committee  —in Tagalog and in French.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Since the permit is closed, that is to say restricted to a single employer, live-in caregivers are highly vulnerable. Between two employers, they wind up at the mercy of clandestine work, with all that can entail. There are also types of recourse to which they do not have access

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's probably for that reason, in the absence of submissions or neutral bodies to refer to, that five applications for union accreditation were made in 2006-2007.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I know that our department of immigration and cultural communities do a certain amount of monitoring, particularly in the case of live-in caregivers. Year after year, it conducts about 20 investigations a month. Officials go and check with employers to see how things are going, a

Citizenship and Immigration committee  They're done randomly. Indeed, there should be a body that provides direct services to these workers. If we rely solely on the contract binding the seasonal agricultural workers to their employer and if, for example, the employer doesn't act on a request for the worker's health i

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You'll note that temporary immigration currently comes from “poor” or developing countries.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, but industrialized countries are currently bringing in labour from developing countries, such as live-in caregivers who come from the Philippines.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's it. And one of status. These workers, as a result of their status, are restricted in the exercise of their rights and freedoms.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'd like to add to Mr. Boudreau's remarks by saying that, when they arrived in Canada, the Italian and Greek immigrants from the 1950s were welcomed as immigrants. They had to fit into Quebec society, but, as the hearings of the Bouchard-Taylor Commission on accommodation practic

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The logic is that there is an unskilled temporary workers program that is extremely restrictive with regard to the exercise of rights. We didn't have the opportunity to complete the presentation, but there is, in particular, the fundamental freedom of every individual to move—