Harper arrived in Manila on Friday night after a six-day tour to India. It’s the first visit by a Canadian prime minister in 15 years. […] The Philippines is now the largest source of immigrants to Canada and Tagalog the fastest-growing language in the country. Many Filipinos enter Canada for low-skilled jobs, sometimes through the temporary foreign worker program or the live-in caregiver program. There have been complaints about abusive employers, labour standards ignored, and the lack of a monitoring system to assist workers.
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