Ontario growers worried over COVID travel restrictions and migrant worker mobility
Canada is reliant on foreign workers for its food supply. In a normal year, some 24,000 seasonal agriculture workers will arrive at the nation’s farms and orchards. Most come from Mexico and the Caribbean, but the federal government suspended commercial flights from those locations on Jan. 31.
Ken Forth, President of the Foreign Agriculture Resource Management Service, said they have the resources to get workers on Canadian soil. We can book total airplanes, like we can book charter flights. And that s what we re doing now, he told toronto.ctvnews.ca..