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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours

EXPLAINED: Overtly racist lawsuit challenges canada s migrant farmworker system | Vintage Vibes

A worker picks raspberries at a farm in Quebec, Canada, on August 11, 2022 [File: Christinne Muschi/Reuters]

Montreal, Canada – “It would be contrary to the whole Canadian belief in freedom of the individual.”

The year was 1952, and Canada’s then-minister of immigration, Walter Harris, was rebuffing the idea of tying immigrant farmworkers from Europe to their Canadian employers.

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