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LEAMINGTON — Construction on what’s being touted as a private-sector solution to keep thousands of migrant workers healthy and even happy on local farms started nearly a year before the novel coronavirus even had a name.
Finding answers has become urgent. The rapid spread of COVID-19 within the local agri-food sector has drawn public criticism and led to calls for better protections for workers seen as essential to Canada’s food supply chain. Hundreds of foreign farm workers have contracted the virus in Essex County alone, one of the area’s biggest greenhouse growers was ordered shut down this week, and local small-business owners are pleading with the province to let them reopen.
Partnering with one of the biggest local agri-food employers, a local developer said a housing project worth about $20 million and nearing completion in Leamington points to a new and hopeful way forward.
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