Bhagat: Canada needs South Asian labour, and racism keeps it cheap

Think there has been a fair degree of public scrutiny of the government policies that contributed (e.g., international student “puppy farms, Temporary Workers”:

…None of this means that Canadians cannot debate immigration levels, housing pressures or labour policy. No doubt these are legitimate political questions. However, we must all address the problem that arises when economic anxieties are redirected to vulnerable workers themselves. South Asians have become the face of policies they did not create, which allows governments, corporations and social media platforms to elide scrutiny. 

Ali Bhagat is assistant professor and director of the public policy minor at the School of Public Policy, Simon Fraser University.

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