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"We immediately contacted the Ontario Ministry of Labour, and the federal government to let them know what was happening," says Stan Raper, the National Coordinator of the AWA. "We were advised of the Wage Earner Protection Act, and immediately filed a test claim." "We're glad a procedure is now in place for workers to finally get the money owed to them," says Wayne Hanley, the National President of UFCW Canada. "At the same time, the stress and abuse the workers went through should never have happened in the first place if the Harper government properly monitored what goes on under its temporary foreign worker programs."