LETTER FROM TORONTO: Disposable domestics for how long?

LETTER FROM TORONTO: Disposable domestics for how long?

To many Filipino caregivers, Canada is heaven on earth compared with other countries of destination for overseas workers. Canada offers them a pathway to permanent resident status, and eventually, to citizenship rights. A future that is not available anywhere else. So who can ask for anything more?

This is why many among their ranks want the government of Canada to continue the Live-in Caregiver Program despite reported abuses and exploitation of domestic workers by their employers. They see any changes by the government, even if only small, as big improvements. Such as the so-called Juana Tejada Law which was a mere tweaking of the regulations by Canada’s immigration bureaucrats to remove the requirement for a second medical examination for caregivers once they qualify for permanent residence.

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