Why Canada leads in global fight against exploitation of marine workers

It wasn't until late 2018 that a functional system of only granting permits to temporary foreign workers, as a last resort, was put in place.

Cabotage mandates that ships operating in Canadian waters must use Canadian or permanent resident workers and can only use foreign workers when Canadians are unavailable.Photograph courtesy of Flickr by International Maritime Organization

Opinion

BY JAMES GIVEN

February 4, 2019

While many of us returned to stable employment after the holiday break, 80 hard-working Australian seafarers returned to work only to find their employment contracts terminated. How could this happen? Why did it happen? Unfortu...

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