Very good series of articles in The Toronto Star

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about the ESA (Employment Standards Act) and the "precariously employed."

It's a four part series. Here is a snippet:

Part-time. Temporary. Self-employed. This is the new norm for millions of Ontario workers, the so-called “precariously employed” struggling in the absence of regulations to protect them. As the province launches a review of its antiquated Employment Standards Act, the Star brings you their stories, and ways to fix it.

Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV

Ontario employers get slap on wrist for mistreating employees

Nine months of waiting for money she was legally owed. Nine months and dozens of desperate phone calls to the Ministry of Labour. Nine months of stress and anguish as the bills piled up. All to get the wages she was entitled to by law. Scarborough resident Sylvia Buchanan’s assessment of the system meant to protect her? “It was horrible.” Last in a four-part series.

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1. Consider what CSIS and the police are doing in the workplaces

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as I have personally experienced and there is a clear and obvious reason for foreign nations NOT to expand or invest in the Canadian marketplace, especially in Ontario. I have done my part and will continue to reach out to American companies in particular and advise them why they would be misguided in investing here. This includes those already invested who would be better served re-allocating their investments to nations that follow the rule of law and basic Civil Liberties rather than funding the security apparatus pension plan in Canada. This is simply a prudent business practice and a vote against the suppression of individuals rights that reward nepotism and reject free market principles.

The firings without cause isn't the issue per se, the interference and erosion of "free pursuits" and the rejection of the sanctity of the individual by the security apparatus who operate in a secular bubble without accountability is. They have cost me three careers and now the house of my wife and I; our very home stolen from us. Yet I have no record, no allegations of wrong doing. The most phenomenal aspect of all of this is I just have to tell the truth to companies and foreign governments, there is nothing subversive about spreading the facts.. These agencies understand how they abuse but they don't care as they don't answer to anyone.

EVERY party follows precisely the same path, they are extensions of the Liberal Party in Ontario. None of them have the courage or even the understanding of the theories of civil liberties or individualism to speak to democracy. If you don't agree look at the voting record of parties in Parliament; nary a vote counter to any party agenda is heard,. Speak to an American about their rights and they will ramble off their Bill of Rights and Amendments by number, ask a Canadian about their Charter of Rights and Freedoms and they couldn't name them. Watch and listen to American Senators who openly vote against their party. We have some elected members of Canada who have openly mocked the Charter!

I have come to the conclusion after a decade of fighting the apparatus, there is nothing to be gained by going through diplomatic channels in Canada, the best way is through foreign business organizations and those governments who support free markets and capitalism. When enough companies leave Canada and expansion of investment into Canada wanes (even with a low dollar), Capitalism and basic tenets of civil liberties will return and the excessive funding of the police will decrease, quite simply that's what is good for business.