How some migrant farm workers wind up exploited under the Temporary Foreign Workers program | Unpublished
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Author: Dave Breakenridge
Publication Date: December 23, 2025 - 15:53

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How some migrant farm workers wind up exploited under the Temporary Foreign Workers program

December 23, 2025

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Canada’s agriculture industry employs tens of thousands of temporary foreign workers to help pick the produce that winds up on your plate.

While many see this as a lifeline, a way to earn money to send to families back home, there are concerns the system is set up to exploit, and in some cases, abuse them.

Robert Cribb, founder and director of the Investigative Journalism Bureau , joins host Dave Breakenridge to discuss the conditions under which these migrants work, and how the system designed to help bring them here for employment may actually be setting them up for harm.

Further reading:   ‘This is the new slavery’: Migrant farm workers underpaid, abused and injured

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