Panel on Canada’s Live-in Caregiver Program
Panel discussion at the York Centre for Asian Research at York University on Dec. 9, 2014, titled "Assessing the Changes to the Live-in Caregiver Program: Improving Security or Deepening Precariousness?” Panellists discussed changes to Canada’s caregiver program, announced by Chris Alexander, minister for citizenship and immigration, in October 2014. These changes created new categories and conditions for the granting of permanent residence and removed the requirement for caregivers to "live-in." Some have welcomed at least some of the changes, but many caregiver advocates see the revised program as highly problematic. The panel, chaired by Professor Philip Kelly (director, York Centre for Asian Research), features prominent lawyers and advocates working with live-in caregivers in Toronto: Pura Velasco, former domestic worker, Caregivers Action Centre; Fay Faraday, lawyer, Packer Chair in Social Justice at York University and visiting professor at Osgoode Hall Law School; Avvy Go, director, Metro Toronto Chinese & Southeast Asian Legal Clinic; Deanna Santos, founder, Santos Law Office, Markham; and Petronila Cleto, Gabriela Ontario.
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