Covid-19, US-Canada: Preventing migrant labour disruption

Each year in the United States and Canada, tens of thousands of temporary foreign workers are brought in to work in both countries’ dairy, egg and meat processing plants and on farms. This year, due to COVID-19, there are serious concerns that the same number of workers will not be allowed to enter, putting food production, business survival and food security at risk. It is vital to ensure work permissions continue, while addressing shortages of dairy products due to panic buying, and drops i