Decision expected on migrant worker

The Human Rights Tribunal for migrant worker Ned Livingston Peart concludes today. The Jamaican man died on a tobacco farm in Brantford 10 years ago.

His family was denied a coroner’s inquest, so they took the issue to the human rights tribunal. Today’s decision could trigger the first ever inquest into the death of a migrant worker in Canada.

The widows of the 11 Peruvian migrant workers who were killed in Hampstead are at the hearing. Their husbands were working on a poultry farm and were in a van when it crashed killing all but 2 passengers. The women are participating in a rally for migrant workers’ rights outside the tribunal this afternoon.