According to Justice for Migrant Workers, the latest worker to die was a father of two who was found in his hotel room on Monday. “These guidelines are simply not being updated.”Current federal quarantine requirements online do not reference ventilation. They’re just in a hotel room.”All migrant worker accommodation, whether on or off-farm, could be selected for an inspection, an ESDC spokesperson said. Ramsaroop said there must be mandatory coroners’ inquests into the deaths of all migrant workers in order to identify systemic failings. Ramsaroop said he wants to see structural change to the migrant worker program itself — particularly workers’ precarious immigration status.

Source: thestar June 16, 2021 18:56 UTC