COVID-19: Minister Hajdu on Windsor-Essex migrant worker crisis
Since March, Windsor-Essex’s agriculture sector was uniquely impacted by the pandemic, with a majority of the region’s cases arising in migrant farmworkers. Though cases remain relatively low and stable nearly seven months since COVID-19 first began, the issues the disease emphasized in the agri-farm sector have received significant attention from municipal, provincial and federal politicians. Federal Health Minister Patty Hajdu responded to questions about what the Windsor-Essex migrant worker crisis looked like from her perspective. She said that the Windsor-Essex outbreak was a really tough one and the loss of life is tragic. Canada relies on foreign agriculture workers and the government is doing everything possible to help those workers and their employers.
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