Federal Court judges urge Ottawa to consider 'moral debt' owed to pandemic workers when deciding their immigration status
In the case of the Alberta health-care worker, the Immigration and Refugee Board reassessing Mohammed’s case remained unmoved by Justice Shirzad Ahmed’s declaration of a “moral debt.”
During early waves of COVID-19, Uwaifo worked more than 3,000 hours as an essential worker, as a security guard and an Uber driver, despite stress about passing the virus to his young family. Among his passengers were health care and other essential workers, and he delivered food to people in quarantine, court heard.Article content
Justice Avvy Yao-Yao Go found it “disconcerting” the government’s decision ignored Uwaifo’s pandemic contributions. “It would not be possible for society to live the way we lived if it wasn’t for the work that refugee claimants and failed refugee claimants have done throughout the pandemic,” Lewis said.
“Growing the food that kept us alive — was that frontline work? The cook, the cleaner, the security guards in the health-care facilities are not considered health-care workers,” he said.A judge in November ruled that a Nigerian family’s good work in a care home for seniors did not trump the father’s ineligibility to remain in Canada for criminality.Article content
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