Choori Mohamed came to Canada with a dream of finding a job, getting permanent residency and eventually helping his wife and two children emigrate from his home in India.
Instead, he said he went into debt paying $10,000 to secure a job and spent more than a year working a job he didn’t sign up for, for an employer he alleges took back part of his salary in cash.
“I never expected these things in Canada,” he said. “Everybody was saying, ‘Canada is a very safe place. It’s the safest country to work in.’ But it’s not.”
