Employment Social Development Canada and Pascal Forest

Quebec: About 4000 Guatemalan workers come to Quebec each year to help plant and harvest, according to CTV. They are supposed to arrive at the beginning of May. The annual problem appears to have gotten worse this year, say farmers. Hundreds of Quebec farmers who sent paperwork in last fall are still awaiting approval. That number is supposed to take four to six weeks to be obtained and they took 16 weeks to deliver it, said farmer Pascal Forest, who hired a dozen Guatemalans and only four have just arrived. The paperwork didn't get transferred from Employment and Social Development Canada to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada to Guatemala City until too late, creating a backlog for only three people at the Canadian Embassy to process. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.