Montreal Gazette Dept: The Centre for Research-Action on Race Relations CRARR and PINAY, a Filipino women's organization, called for an investigation into John Aurora, an immigration consultant and landlord who recruited Filipina domestics in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. Aurora died in September 2009 but CRARR said his family business still operates, according to Montreal Gazette. Niemi said Aurora demanded the women sign leases for apartments in buildings he owned in Beaconsfield and le Bizard, where some were forced to share beds or sleep on the floor because of overcrowding. There were two bathrooms for more than 27 women and visitors were forbidden after 9 p.m., Niemi said. Many of the women were required to work for Aurora without pay, Niemi added and government agencies have turned a blind eye to abuses by a Montreal immigration firm that recruits Filipino domestics, advocacy groups charged Thursday. CRARR executive director Fo Niemi told a news conference that Aurora, owner of the Super Nanny agency, recruited dozens of Filipina women as domestics from 2004 to 2008 but in many cases did not deliver on the promised jobs. The women paid an average of $4,000 to Aurora in fees, in addition to $1,400 in plane fare. As
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