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            <text>0:00imagine working for an abusive employer but not being able to quit migrant&#13;
0:04workers are an integral part of our workforce and yet they don't seem to&#13;
0:08have the same rights as the rest of us the federal government is getting set to&#13;
0:12recommend changes to the temporary foreign workers program next week but&#13;
0:16many are wondering if it will be enough to stop what they say is systemic abuse&#13;
0:21they take care of our children and our elderly they work on farms and hold down&#13;
0:30jobs in our fast food industry temporary foreign workers but there is an ugly&#13;
0:36side to the program&#13;
0:37experts say it leaves workers vulnerable and exposed to abuse you feel like&#13;
0:42anymore&#13;
0:44banana yeah Alberto Moreno came here from mexico in $MONTH 2012 to work on an&#13;
0:50Ontario farm he slept in a bunker with 24 men who had to share three toilets&#13;
0:55and showers&#13;
0:56he says he was injured soon after arriving while spraying plants 48 hours&#13;
1:02in a greenhouse with a tank on his back&#13;
1:04you're looking at video he posted on YouTube tongue has told the acid drop&#13;
1:13off with my leg and born my leg&#13;
1:17Alberto complaint and was fired getting a new job and then there is the story of&#13;
1:22Kristina Torres she came to Canada as a nanny under the living caregiver program&#13;
1:27several years ago and says she found a different kind of abuse from a previous&#13;
1:32employer when she first arrived you were supposed to work an eight-hour day&#13;
1:36yes eight-hour pretty and in reality how many hours did you find you were working&#13;
1:40i would end up working 16 hours a day&#13;
1:45no overtime migrant workers have become known as invisible disposable labor in&#13;
1:51this country and yet they are a pillar of the economy their numbers more than&#13;
1:56tripled in canada in 10 years from 100,000 in 2002 to 338,000 in 2012 with&#13;
2:05the majority working in ontario the expectation that they talk about it is&#13;
2:09real&#13;
2:10a Faraday is a labor and human rights lawyer the Ministry of Labour here in&#13;
2:14Ontario has over the last couple of years done a number of sweets into&#13;
2:19industries were migrant workers are known to be working and they have found&#13;
2:24rates of non-compliance with the Employment Standards Act which range&#13;
2:28from seventy to eighty percent non-compliance and so when we talk about&#13;
2:33this being a systemic problem&#13;
2:36it really is deeply entrenched but many are hoping that is about to stop next&#13;
2:42week the federal government will reveal recommendations to change the temporary&#13;
2:46foreign workers program advocates are calling for an easier path to permanent&#13;
2:51status they also want closed work permits eliminated so people aren't tied&#13;
2:56to one employer leading them afraid to stand up for their rights for fear of&#13;
3:00being fired with nowhere to go&#13;
3:02maybe then they say stories like Alberto's won't have to be told anymore&#13;
3:08every five minutes it's a guy up in the back pushing you hurry up hurry up&#13;
3:14you are so low you're so lazy commands go you want to go back to your country&#13;
3:19it's very very hard to deal with&#13;
3:23we spoke to Ontario's Labour Minister today Kevin Flynn acknowledge there has&#13;
3:27been some abuse by some but not all employers he also said his government&#13;
3:31has been working closely with the federal government on this issue</text>
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dark area of immigration that works to mold and shape the type of labour force identity Canada strives for.</text>
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