A Senate committee recommends the creation of an independent group to oversee Canada’s migrant worker program.
Establishing a Migrant Worker Commission is the top recommendation in the Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology’s report about solutions for temporary and migrant labour in Canada.
The commission would be an “arms-length, independent agency of the Government of Canada that would coordinate policy and respond to Canadian employers, Canadian workers and migrant workers alike,” the report’s executive summary says.
A Commissioner for Migrant Workers would lead this gro