[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]“We’re seeing disruptions to our food system — most recently we’ve seen issues with migrant rights, migrant labourers’ unsafe working conditions,” Sivilay said.
The meatpacking industry and its workers have been hard hit by the pandemic, while this week Mexico temporarily disallowed its citizens to travel to Canada after two migrant workers died of COVID-19.“It’s so we can reassess with the federal authorities, provinces and farmers why this happened and if there is anything to correct,” Mexican Ambassador Juan Jose Gomez Camacho told the Canadian Press..