Changing The Rules
FEELING THE PAIN OF CANADA’S TEMPORARY FOREIGN WORKERS BY SCOTT ROLLANS Cristo Hurtado remembers his first visit to Southern Alberta’s Paskal Cattle Company in 2006. The young veterinarian had travelled from his home in Monterrey, Mexico, to explore the possibility of pursuing a new life in Canada as a temporary foreign worker. “We came in May,” recalled Hurtado. “It wasn’t green yet, but there was no snow at all. [Company president] Rick Paskal told me, ‘All this is going to be white in winter.’ I couldn’t even picture that in my head.” Nine years (and nine Canadian winters) later, that snowy landscape has become home...Read more