Along with some of the workers themselves:

Jamaican migrant farm workers in Niagara Region wrote an open letter to Jamaica’s Ministry of Labour requesting more support in the face of what they call “systematic slavery,” days before a migrant worker died in Norfolk County.

The system benefits employers who are able to pay below market wages and avoid innovating.

Other news stories have talked about employers that treat their TFW really well, but the system seems designed in a manner that exploitation is easy.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

A United Nations official on Wednesday denounced Canada’s temporary foreign worker program as a “breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery.”

Tomoya Obokata, UN special rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, made the comments in Ottawa after spending 14 days in Canada.

“Agricultural and low-wage streams of the temporary foreign workers program constitute a breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery.”

Obokata’s comments echo those of Jamaican migrant workers who, in an open letter to their country’s ministry of labour last month, described their working conditions in Ontario as “systematic slavery.”

“This creates a dependency relationship between employers and employees, making the latter vulnerable to exploitation,” he said, adding that many workers are reluctant to report abuse because they fear losing their permits.

“He’s repeating and he’s saying what we’ve been saying for a long time … migrant workers in this country are being exploited and permanent resident status is the primary solution to ensure that they have equal rights,” Hussan said.

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