Ellin is one of a dozen Jamaican temporary foreign workers who arrived at the Annapolis Valley farm in mid-April. (Paul Palmeter/CBC)Every year, the Canadian agricultural industry employs about 60,000 temporary foreign workers. Over at Charles Keddy Farms in Lakeville, N.S., 14 Jamaican farmers have also safely served their mandatory quarantine and started work planting and harvesting strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, asparagus, rhubarb and sweet potato. "We wouldn't be in business without temporary foreign workers," Keddy said. Without these temporary foreign workers, food would be much more expensive, and they would be a much smaller selection of horticultural products on the supermarket shelves in Canada."

Source: CBC News May 02, 2020 09:00 UTC