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Nearly 20,000 migrant workers arrive in Canada each summer to work the land

Published September 1, 2004

A long, dirt road cuts through swaying fields of waist-high green foliage, arriving at an enormous piece of parked farm machinery. Inside, almost a dozen Mexican workers are getting used to a Canadian custom: a 10-minute snack break rather than a mid-afternoon siesta.

The driver and tour-guide who brings me there is Laurent Cousineau, the vice-president of Paul Cousineau & Fils, Inc., a large-scale...

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