Brad’s Reviews > Harvesting Freedom: The Life of a Migrant Worker in Canada > Status Update

"Canadian workers worked at their own pace—something that was obvious to us migrant workers. They also did not receive the same pressure from supervisors…The key difference [is] that they were not on a tied work permit, with the threat of deportation hanging over them.

...my experience in the greenhouse definitely showed migrant workers to be head and shoulders above Canadian workers in terms of productivity."

[A] 1997 ruling by the WTO that ended Caribbean countries’ preferential access to European markets for banana exports. The United States had brought a complaint to the WTO, protesting the protected market share that European countries had granted their former colonies in the Caribbean, claiming it was a violation of the principles of free trade.

Also known as kicking away the ladder.

"I am a Lab Rat in a grand experiment. Everything that is being introduced into the Canadian workplace--short-term, contract, 'flexible' employment--has been tried on us for fifty-seven years.

What they try on migrant farm workers, they'll try on you next."