Jenna L Hennebry

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Mexican and Guatemalan workers pick strawberries at a strawberry farm in Pont Rouge Que., in August 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot

The Temporary Foreign Worker Program is a failure, and new immigration limits make a bad situation worse

Jenna L Hennebry, Wilfrid Laurier University

The 2025 Immigration Plan aims to cut the numbers of temporary migrants in Canada from 6.5 per cent to five per cent of the population. Instead, it will boost the number of non-status people.
Migrant workers at an asparagus farm near Vittoria, Ont., in June 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

Despite Ontario workers’ compensation reforms, migrant workers are still being left behind

Stephanie Mayell, University of Toronto; Janet McLaughlin, Wilfrid Laurier University, and Jenna L Hennebry, Wilfrid Laurier University

Ontario’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Board must ensure all injured migrant workers — past, present and future — are spared systemic discrimination in the wake of its recent apology.
A seasonal migrant worker is seen in the Niagara area earlier this spring. (Jane Andres, Niagara Workers Welcome)

Coronavirus: Canada stigmatizes, jeopardizes essential migrant workers

Jenna L Hennebry, Wilfrid Laurier University; C. Susana Caxaj, Western University; Janet McLaughlin, Wilfrid Laurier University, and Stephanie Mayell, University of Toronto

Migrant workers are not inherently more vulnerable to COVID-19, nor more likely to be carrying it than Canadians. Yet our treatment of them this year stigmatizes them and puts them at risk.

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