Philippine Asian News Today Vol 18 No 18 | Page 8

A8 PHILIPPINE ASIAN NEWS TODAY September 16 - 30, 2016 HEADLINES Tinig Migrante By E. Maestro Just recently, I joined other front-line advocates and the BC Federation of Labour in a press conference to respond and reflect on the Parliamentary Committee report on the Temporary Foreign Workers Program. The report came out on Sept 19 and the press conference was organized on Sept 21. The lengthy report listed 21 recommendations, a significant number of these were recommendations to study and review certain measures and issues. The Review process had already been criticized with not having enough voices from migrant workers themselves and migrant advocates. Certainly, no one from British Columbia was invited to testify before the Committee. Here is my brief report on the morning press conference: At the press conference at the BC Fed Vancouver office were the spokespeople from the Community Legal A