As It Happens8:36Jamaican government investigates why farm workers were sent home
The Canadian and Jamaican governments are investigating allegations that an Ontario farm sent a group of Jamaican migrant workers home after they held a one-day strike to protest what they described as substandard living conditions.
Pearnel Charles Jr., Jamaica’s minister of labour, says he met four of the five workers in question after a local newspaper reported they’d been expelled from Canada as “payback” for their work stoppage, and for blowing the whistle about their treatment to the media.
“They expressed to me that they were disappointed with being returned early, which I
