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“My message to those scumbags out there abusing migrant workers is this: you can run but you can’t hide,” McNaughton said Monday at a press conference. “We will find you, fine you and put you behind bars.” As well, if an individual employer is ultimately convicted by the courts of such an offence, they would also be subject to a fine of up to $500,000, up to 12 months in jail or both, while corporations could be fined up to $1 million.We apologize, but this video has failed to load.McNaughton said the exploitation of migrant workers happens far too often, pointing to a recent bust by York Regional Police.
The men and women who were trafficked worked at farms, factories and warehouses and were taken from their living quarters — where the workers described dozens of people slept on mattresses on the floor amid bug infestations — to their workplaces on private buses, police said.
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