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A commonplace pretext is that Canada needs at least a half-million newcomers every year because of its aging population. Nonsense.

Migrant workers in Canada pay into employment insurance, but they can't access it when their contracts expire and they return home. They also can't change employers while they're in Canada. There's now a proposed class action lawsuit to challenge those regulations.

Canada’s federal government is facing a nearly half-billion dollar class action lawsuit from seasonal agricultural workers who say they were denied benefits and exploited, thanks to what they’re calling racist policies from the 1960s that are still in place today.

Canada’s federal government is facing a nearly half-billion dollar class action lawsuit from seasonal agricultural workers who say they were denied benefits and exploited, thanks to what they’re calling racist policies from the 1960s that are still in place today.

A proposed class-action lawsuit claims the federal government was “motivated by overtly racist policy objectives” when it implemented employer-specific work permits for migrant farm workers.