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Foreign workers fill Canadian agricultural labour shortage
Story Date: 2/9/2012
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Source: Nicholas King, THE TORONTO STAR, 2/8/12
They pay income tax and contribute to Canada’s employment insurance and pension plans, just like Canadian workers. But the 24,000 migrant agricultural workers who come here yearly — 90 per cent destined for Ontario — live at the mercy of Canadian farm owners and must leave the country once the planting and harvesting in fields, orchards and greenhouses is done.
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