Given that deaths occur which do not meet a compensation board’s criteria for inclusion, plus the large number of workers who are simply overlooked, studies suggest that the real number of annual direct work-related deaths in Canada is more realistically over 10,000.
April 28 marks the National Day of Mourning. The London and District Labour Council is remembering those who’ve suffered work-related disability, disease and death.
Canada has laws to protect workers from harm at work but political will is lacking to enforce those laws, the leader of federal NDP said in downtown Toronto on Friday.