"Human Outsourcing" nothing more than the legalization of "Human Trafficking" by the Conservatives

Knowing of your interest in the question of outsourcing Canadian jobs to "guest" workers I take the liberty of forwarding to you a link to a commentary on the matter which I think you may find useful.

http://www.policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/updates/armine-yalnizyan-business-outsourcing-canada

Thanks Ed ..... this subject does have me quite concerned, not for myself, but for my children and my grandchildren and for Canadians in general. With our federal governments lack of vision and inexperience in governing...... Canadians in all walks of life should be worried.

In recent years, Canada has seen an explosion of low-skilled temporary foreign workers. Though outsourcing is not new, the practice is under renewed scrutiny—especially given the recent alleged in-sourcing of workers at RBC and the HD Mining case in British Columbia. On this morning’s episode of CBC Radio’s The Current, CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan does a great job of contextualizing the outsourcing problem in Canada and its troubling consequences, including a disappearing middle class.
Listen to Armine, here.

http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/episode/2013/04/09/outsourcing-the-business-in-canada-and-beyond/

The UN defines Human Trafficking as.....

Human Trafficking

Trafficking in persons is a serious crime and a grave violation of human rights. Every year, thousands of men, women and children fall into the hands of traffickers, in their own countries and abroad. Almost every country in the world is affected by trafficking, whether as a country of origin, transit or destination for victims. UNODC, as guardian of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) and the Protocols thereto, assists States in their efforts to implement the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons (Trafficking in Persons Protocol).

 

 

What is Human Trafficking?

Article 3, paragraph (a) of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons defines Trafficking in Persons as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs

 

Elements of human trafficking

 

On the basis of the definition given in the Trafficking in Persons Protocol, it is evident that trafficking in persons has three constituent elements;

 

The Act (What is done)

 

Recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons

 

The Means (How it is done)

 

Threat or use of force, coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or vulnerability, or giving payments or benefits to a person in control of the victim

 

The Purpose (Why it is done)

 

For the purpose of exploitation, which includes exploiting the prostitution of others, sexual exploitation, forced labour, slavery or similar practices and the removal of organs.

 

To ascertain whether a particular circumstance constitutes trafficking in persons, consider the definition of trafficking in the Trafficking in Persons Protocol and the constituent elements of the offense, as defined by relevant domestic legislation.

http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/what-is-human-trafficking.html

 

The temporary immigrant who comes to Canada is exploited by agencies within their own country who charge exorbitant fees for their service while many of these workers live under threat of retribution should they fail to pay the fee.

Once they arrive in Canada they are, in some cases, housed in cattle like residences and exploited by the corporation or farmer by being forced to work 60 to 80 hours per week at a salary less than that of their Canadian counterpart. Many work under threat or fear of deportation while others have their pay reduced to cover their living expenses and some have even been cheated out of money by those who hired them.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2010/11/24/f-brosnahan-migrant-farm-workers.html

The government insists they are changing the regulations..... Why? Because of public outrage over RBC not because of any sense of guilt or responsibility for running a "Human Trafficking" ring under the guise of "Temporary Immigration".

Migrant rights activists denounce Canada’s Federal Government for stripping away Employment Insurance benefit for migrant workers

December 10, 2012

(Toronto) Migrant worker advocates are angered and shocked to learn that the Federal Government is once again attacking one of Canada’s most vulnerable populations.

Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development Diane Finley announced on December 6th the elimination of Employment Insurance (EI) special benefits (parental, maternal and compassionate benefits) for migrant workers employed under Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker program. The minister failed to report that these workers will continue to pay into this social protection fund, as they have been doing so since 1966, yet now will no longer be able to collect these benefits.
Migrant workers perform back-breaking dangerous jobs and pay into government social protection programs yet they are consistently denied the benefits of such programs. It is estimated that migrant workers have contributed $ 3.4 million annually into Canada's Employment Insurance scheme. However it was not until 2002 that some migrant workers started to access special benefits. Over the last ten years, workers from the Caribbean and Mexico have benefited from parental benefits to provide much needed support for their newly born children. By eliminating this benefit the federal government is in fact eliminating one of the few income supports that are available to migrant workers employed under Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Programs.

Junior Sylvester a twelve year veteran of the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program says “The elimination of these special benefits violates the nature of the Employment Insurance act that was put into place to protect our families and our children from falling into poverty".

“For over forty years migrant workers have been subsidizing Canada’s EI fund yet have been ‘ineligible’ to receive full benefits, and now they are being completely stripped away from the few special benefits they were able to access. This is completely unjust and outrageous” says Justicia for Migrant Workers’ organizer Adriana Paz Ramirez. Given this situation, Paz Ramirez states that “the fight right now should be to restore this benefit and to fully include migrant workers into social protection programs rather than eliminating access and reinforcing a system that perpetuates exclusion and marginalization of migrant workers”.
For more information please call Chris Ramsaroop at 647-834-4932 or email at j4mw.on@gmail.com.

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http://justicia4migrantworkers.org/bc/

 

 

But then the Conservatives know that Canadians are not activists.... they are enablers.... so the government can abuse those most in need with the express consent of Canadians.