Poverty Line: Immigration Minister Jason Kenney S Orders

Toronto Caregiver Resource Centre Dept: Immigration Minister Jason Kenney s orders came in response to a year-long Star investigation that found foreign nannies were treated as servants and forced to stay with one employer. Often, their passports were held by families that hired them, paying wages far below the poverty line, according to The Star. If we truly want to eliminate poverty, if we really want to eliminate neglect, exploitation and slavery, that is the thing to do expedite their open work permits and ten thousand open work permits have been issued to foreign caregivers across Canada in a move one activist said frees them from bondage and slavery. Finally they are released from bondage, the bondage of poverty, slavery and neglect, said Terry Olayta, coordinator of the Toronto Caregiver Resource Centre. She said the average nanny nets about $250 a week. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.