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Injured migrant workers denied medicare after farm staff hurt in crash of company van

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2014-04-16

Autores

Tom Blackwell

Resumen

Jamaicans Denville Clarke and Kenroy Williams had been in Canada for mere days in August 2012 when the van carrying them and seven other foreign workers rolled over on the way to a southern Ontario farm.

Another of the seasonal labourers was killed, Mr. Clarke and Mr. Williams suffered serious injuries and the driver was charged. The pair say they required treatment well after they were supposed to return home at the end of harvest season.

An Ontario court has just ruled, however, that their medicare coverage ended when their work visas expired that December, leaving them potentially on the hook for months of health-care costs.

Titular

National Post

Conexiones

Los sectores económicos

Agriculture and horticulture workers

Tipos de contenido

La política actual

Los grupos destinatarios

Conciencia Pública

Relevancia geográfica

Ontario

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