Canada’s federal government is facing a nearly half-billion dollar class action lawsuit from seasonal agricultural workers who say they were denied benefits and exploited, thanks to what they’re calling racist policies from the 1960s that are still in place today.
A proposed class-action lawsuit claims the federal government was “motivated by overtly racist policy objectives” when it implemented employer-specific work permits for migrant farm workers.
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