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The 38-year-old Filipina was allegedly forced to work around the clock, and suffered emotional and physical abuse from a Vancouver family who had brought her to Canada in 2008 from Hong Kong, said Jane Ordinario of Migrante BC, the Filipino organization that encouraged the nanny to fight back.
“She was emotionally distraught,” Ordinario said. “She’s overworked, paid minimum wage and not able to take a day off to see her peers or fellow Filipinos. That’s what she was crying over when we met her.”
The woman told the support agency she had a cup of milk thrown in her face by a family member when she didn’t properly warm it for one of the children. She threatened to call 911 and the family told her to go ahead, the unnamed woman told Migrante BC.
“I commend her for her courage,” Ordinario said. “It’s not easy when you don’t have status in Canada.”
When police arrived at the East Vancouver home, they discovered the woman was working in the country illegally, her visitor’s visa expired and the couple had confiscated her passport after her arrival in Canada.
Ordinario said because there is no agency that monitors living and working conditions for domestic workers in Canada, conditions are frequently deplorable.
She knew of a domestic worker forced to try the dog food she prepared before giving it to the animal. Others sleep on couches and in storage spaces. Another Filipina was recently allegedly raped by her employer, Ordinario claimed.
“Most domestic workers are vulnerable to physical abuse from their employers, their children or the immediate family that live in the employer’s house,” she said. “They suffer psychological and emotional abuse. There is also economical exploitation because she worked long hours for minimum wage.”
Oi Ling Nicole Huen and Franco Yiu Kwan Orr each face charges of human smuggling and human trafficking under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.
Commentary by the Ottawa Mens Centre
It's not only women who end up in "domestic slavery" thanks to the Male
Sharia Law that is applied in Canada.
Foreign men with no idea of how corrupt and unjust Canada's ideas of family are,
meet Canadian women on-line or when the Canadian women happen to meet them in
their own countries.
Once pregnant the man can be held to ransom, do exactly what she says, give her
all the money, work 24/7 or, you dont get to be a father.
If an immigrant father goes to court, odds are she will have the money, an
extreme feminist lawyer who is a professional fabricator of evidence most often
knowingly providing false information to the court as "an officer of the court".
Any foreign man in family court is treated with a "reverse onus", any allegation
about him by the mother is treated as true.
That means, if he wants access or custody, odds are she will attempt to get a
criminal conviction to get him thrown out of Canada and or an order for child
support and spousal support based on income that never existed or no longer
exists.
That means, the father could well have a court order to pay support in excess of
his income and if he does not pay it, the Canadian Provincial Government
supplies unlimited funds to litigate the issue of support without any notion of
an impartial objective hearing. Its assumed that any prior order is correct, and
the only issue is, how much jail time will he be subject to, to extort money
from his family and or second spouse.
Foreign men are then forced to beg from their families back home to be able to
stay out of jail and or see their kids which most of the time the courts are not
going to help unless its with the mother's consent.
Once a father is incarcerated, for not paying the support the mother can tell
the child/ren that daddy is bad and in jail.
Unlike real criminals, there is no time off for good behaviour, no conditional
jail sentences, he is in jail for many months to see, if, they can hold him to
ransom, to his family, to force them to sell property, mortgage and reverse
mortgage property to get their son out of a Canadian Jail.
Increasingly overseas family realize that paying extortion only encourages
further extortion. Any payment no matter how small is seen as a sign of success
and therefore a sign that more money will be able to be extorted.
There are far more men in "Domestic Slavery" than women but Canadian society
treats men and fathers as second class human beings which results in most kids
of most schools not having their father at home. Increasingly, its two women
with absent fathers who rake in child support while the fathers live in
"Domestic Slavery".
As part of Father's Day, please ssk your MP to support a Legal Presumption of
Equal Parenting, a Reform of Child support Guidlines, an End to Debtor's prisons
and a real authority for the judiciary.
If its an NDP member, don't bother.
www.OttawaMensCentre.com