Program: Workers and Year

program: Each year up to 400 mostly Mexican workers come to Manitoba under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program to work on local farms, according to Rabble. They perform physically strenuous work on vegetable farms and in greenhouses for up to eight months, year after year. Chip in to keep stories like these coming. Workers regularly toil 12 hours per day, six to seven days a week, and they live socially isolated from Canadian society. As such, 2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the program which was initially created to temporarily assist farmers in obtaining the workers required to cultivate their crops. The SAWP is the longest-standing Temporary Foreign Worker Program in Canada, dating back to 1966. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.