Canada

This is part of the conversation on immigration that's missing: we're treating guest workers and new Canadians like a resource to be mined.

We're getting people to come here with various promises, and then allowing unscrupulous assholes to exploit them. Some of those assholes are "consultants", and recruiters. Others are employers. Some are post secondary institutions offering garbage degrees/certificates. And we can't forget landlords.

It's funny because considering immigrants welfare would probably have cut down on numbers: we'd have open work permits, rather than TFWs; useful education programs, rather than puppy mills; and we'd ensure access to services/housing for new arrivals.

she is one of the Ontario Ministry of Labour’s most notorious repeat offenders, caught 35 times

Stop right there. Repeat offenders are a symptom of a legal system that doesn't work.

We issued a few $250 fines, which is a tiny risk worth taking for these criminals making hundreds of thousands of dollars through their illegal activities.

If we gave long prison sentences, she wouldn't be able to victimize 35 times!

And if her actions resulting in someone being homeless, skip prison and let her live on the street for a few years as a learning experience.

Also, why isn't this being seen as human-trafficking? The UN quite literally defines human trafficking as the "... recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of people through force, fraud or deception, with the aim of exploiting them for profit.".

That's exactly what she did, and only got a small fine for it???

Edit: grammar