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Pedro, a Mexican migrant worker, knew he had to leave the Ontario cannabis operation where he worked when so many of his co-workers caught COVID-19 that his employer began to house them in a 16-person bunk house alongside the uninfected.
Pedro moved in with friends in the nearby farming town of Leamington, Ont., at the end of October. He asked to be identified under a pseudonym because he fears that speaking out will affect his chances of employment.
“I didn’t know where to go, where to get help. So I was left behind, hopeless,” he said, speaking through a translator. About a week later, Pedro landed another job, working with peppers in a greenhouse. Conditions are better, he said.