Foreign Workers and Filipino Butcher Eduardo Basa

Filipino butcher Eduardo Basa: "When I came to Canada, I feel that I'm blindfolded. I don't know where to go," said Basa , about his journey here from Manila nearly six years ago. "I know the name of the company, but what the process, what the system?" , according to CBC. Many of the hundreds of thousands of temporary foreign workers, particularly those coming from developing countries to work in gruelling jobs, dream of ultimately getting citizenship. But the process is often complex and littered with stumbling blocks for those brought here to fill short-term labour gaps. Filipino butcher Eduardo Basa knew little about the small-town meat-packing plant in southern Alberta where he'd secured a job under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. A surprise awaited him. He had stumbled into a workplace with a rare guarantee to its transient foreigner workers to help them become Canadians. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.