Canadian Government Investigates Farmers for Using Child Labor

[lvcabbie]

I thought only American government officials were this stupid – or arrogant, whichever term you wish to use.

Farm families can no longer have their own children working on the farm?

And, don't believe this doesn't happen – or won't happen in the future – here in the USA.

Read the article @ http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskat...729781?cmp=rss

[jambo101]

Odd that some one in this little farming community would make a complaint against a neighbor for having their kids work on the farm which is almost always a given for kids growing up on a farm.
I wonder if the rat in this case wasnt actually one of the kids \Particularly if they were being asked to work on the line 8-12 hours a day instead of just doing normal farm related chores for a few hours a day.

[lvcabbie]

Just the fact that ANY government agency would even consider something like this is disgusting.

[jambo101]

I'm sure most countries have child labor laws, however on the surface of the story it doesnt appear that these children were being abused, i think at this point its a bureaucrat merely responding to the complaint.and its only an investigation that i think will go nowhere,
However if legal action is applied i'll have much more to opine on the issue

[lvcabbie]

I lived in a foster home that was on a ranch/farm.

We busted out butts before and after school and on Saturdays. When school was out, we worked in the fields.

I loved every minute of it and, for the first time in my life, felt I was contributing something.

I recently returned to that place to find mosf of the land now occupied by large apartment buildings. I was told they had to get rid of the farm because of California regulations on having youths involved in "hard laboir."

Never felt sadder.