GATINEAU, QUE. – Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour Patty Hajdu is heading to Mexico to speak about labour protections and standards with her Mexican counterpart.
Hajdu, the Liberal MP for Thunder Bay-Superior North, is expected to meet with Luisa Maria Alcalde, Mexico’s secretary of labour and social welfare, part of Canada’s promise to help improve labour standards and working conditions in both countries through the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement.
"Canada and Mexico enjoy a close trading relationship. I am very much looking forward to meeting with Secretary Luisa María Alcalde to discuss the upcoming implementation of the new labour chapter of the new NAFTA and creating a level playing field for workers in all three partner countries,” Hajdu said in a release issued on Wednesday.
The agreement was signed last November and includes provisions that ban the importation of goods produced by forced labour, address violence against workers exercising labour rights and protect migrant works under labour laws.
