Canada-Wide Campaign Demands Status for All! - • Mexican Government Stops Sending Temporary Foreign Workers to Canada • National Farmers Union-Ontario Issues Statement

In addition to the announcement by the Mexican government that it was calling a temporary halt to workers coming to Canada, there are reports that the Mexican National Human Rights Commission has launched an investigation into the deaths of the two workers and the conditions faced by Mexican migrant agricultural workers in Ontario. [...] Another source of major concern is the view put forward by the ruling circles that now is the time to "reopen Quebec" by striking a balance between the "economy" and the health and safety of workers and people. [...] On June 8, Quebec health care unions issued a press release entitled "Better preparations needed in the health and social services system for the 2nd wave." The health care unions are the Health and Social Services' Workers' Union-CSN, the Interprofessional Health Care Federation of Quebec, the Alliance of Professional and Technical Health and Social Services Staff, the Quebec section of the Canad. [...] They identify as one of the most significant problems the lack of prevention of workplace illness and injury, which, in the health care sector, is directly related to the health and safety of patients and residents in long term care homes. [...] Even the construction sector, which is the deadliest sector in term of workplace casualties and is considered by the Act as a priority sector, is not fully covered by the mechanisms because of the long-standing opposition from the construction companies and the refusal of the Quebec government to even implement what is in its own legislation.