Toronto, August 12, 2024 - The Migrant Workers Alliance for Change welcomes the final report by United Nations Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Professor Tomoya Obokata, in which he reiterated that Canada's immigration systems are a “breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery” and that “the structural precarity for temporary foreign workers would be mitigated by systematically providing workers with a pathway to permanent residence”.

Move comes after three years of campaigning by Migrant Workers Alliance for Change; Permanent Changes and Fairness for All Migrant Student Workers Still Needed