Quebec’s immigration and labour minister, Jean Boulet, has sent workplace health and safety investigators to look into allegations that operators of a private seniors’ home in Lévis, Que., harassed, blackmailed and underpaid six temporary migrant workers from Africa over the course of many months.
Boulet called on the workplace health and safety board (CSST) to investigate after the French-language newspaper Le Devoir reported Thursday that Villa mon domaine, a 63-room residence, had been paying the workers just $50 to $70 a week.
“I found it revolting, intolerable, unacceptable,” Boulet told Radio-Canada.
“We will take whatever steps are necessary quickly. We will investigate, and if it’s true, we will remedy
