migrant workers

Migrant workers wear masks and practice social distancing to help slow the spread of coronavirus while trimming red cabbage at Mayfair Farms in Portage la Prairie, M.B., in April 2020 (Shannon VanRaes/Reuters)

Pick our fruit, get COVID-19

Sadiya Ansari: Canada’s immigration system doesn’t provide citizenship paths to so-called ’unskilled’ labour, fails to recognize their worth and, as a result, fails to protect them