From the office of MPP Bobbi Ann Brady
To The Haldimand Press
The Ontario government is launching a new intake under the Enhanced Agri-Food Workplace Protection Program to assist agriculture producers with costs associated with enhanced COVID-19 measures for migrant worker housing.
“This is an option available for Haldimand-Norfolk agriculture producers who rely on offshore labour for planting, tending to, and harvesting a wide variety of crops,” said Bobbi Ann Brady, Haldimand-Norfolk MPP. “I encourage local producers to explore this program and commend Minister Lisa Thompson for renewing it.”
The program is a cost‐sharing initiative that provides financial assistance to eligible agri‐food businesses that continue to face extraordinary costs related to wage support, isolation and quarantine measures, and infection prevention and control measures.
The province will be providing $10 million in funding through three streams:
Stream I: Agri‐Food Workplace COVID‐19 Prevention and Protection
Stream II: Wage, Isolation and Quarantine Support for Employers of International Agri‐food Workers and Domestic Workers in Ontario
Stream III: Congregate Housing Infection Prevention and Control Measures (Congregate housing defined as employers who provide housing to International Agricultural Workers (IAWs) partaking in the federal Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) and / or Workers living in employer provided accommodation)
Anyone with questions should contact the Agricultural Information Contact Centre (AICC) by email at ag.info.omafra@ontario.ca or by phone at 1‐877‐424‐1300.
