Canada’s colonial past puts the vulnerable in a different set of chains

A UN special rapporteur has found ‘Canada’s temporary foreign worker programs are a breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery.’

The Temporary Foreign Worker program, closely linked to Minister Marc Miller’s Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada, is as strong as tattered lace, writes Erica Ifill.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ERICA IFILL

September 13, 2023

OTTAWA—“Slavery was 400 years ago. Get over it,” and “slavery didn’t happen in Canada, so why bring it up?” are both popular white proverbs to deflect from the fact the

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