Another way that the current crisis hurts those at the bottom of the economic
ladder was
revealed in a conversation with Lucy Luna, a United Food and Commercial Workers union organizer among immigrant farm workers in the Fraser Valley, who notes that the reduced value of the Canadian dollar means that the remittances sent home to Mexico
by the «guest workers» shipped to Canada under a federal temporary work permit program are now nearly cut in half in value
by the time they reach Mexico, where the economy is geared to the U.S. dollar.