During the nine years he worked as a migrant farm worker in Ontario, Sidique Ali-Hosein says he noticed a rift between workers of different cultural backgrounds.
Caribbean and Mexican workers often kept to themselves, he said, sometimes because of differences like language but other times because the employers grouped workers into bubbles.
“When a farm worker comes, they’re more or less in a bubble … Caribbean workers, they’re not sure of what their rights are, [just like Mexican workers] they are kept into a bubble, uneducated,” he said.
Ali-Hosein came to Canada from Trinidad and Tobago for the first time in 2013. He worked at a farm
