Home care is essential to Ontario’s health- care system, but its failures are offloaded onto underpaid personal support workers — mostly racialized immigrant women —who often work in unsafe conditions.
- Associate Professor of Sociology, Toronto Metropolitan University
Whoever replaces Justin Trudeau as prime minister must prioritize the further expansion of the his government’s child-care program in the years ahead.
Research shows a classed and racialized divide among women caring for their children in Canada today. It’s a divide that is having a negative financial impact on immigrant women doing this work.
Immigrant care workers are having to work into retirement age to make ends meet. The Canadian government must do more to support them.
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