Fil-Canadians hold protest in Vancouver after Marcos SONA | TFC News British Columbia, Canada
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Activist groups in Vancouver launched their own version of the State of the Nation address to decry what they alleged as the Philippine government's continued implementation of its decades-old labor export policy.
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This was in response to the annual address to Congress delivered this week by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
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In the protest action, Migrante Bici said that for years now, overseas Filipino workers have been propping up the economy through billions of dollars that they send back home.
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But even with their huge contribution, Bayan Canada said the government has failed to support these overseas workers when they needed help.
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Sobrang dami pong tao na naging TNT undocumented, mga taong na scam, mga taong na labor traffic. Tapos wala silang suporta na nakukuha.
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Nadideport lang sila or wala silang magawa sa kanilang sitwasyon at walang nagsusuporta sa kanila sa gobyerno sa Pilipinas.
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One of those who left the country to provide for their family is Mylene Rosario.
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She came to Canada as a temporary foreign worker after working in Taiwan.
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Rosario says she paid her agency P700,000 so she can find a job here only for her employer to make her do other duties that was not in her contract.
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I was being exploited in my work as a worker.
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Usually, ang work permit ko po talaga is a kitchen helper.
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Pero ginagawa po nila akong cook.
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So, tapos marami po silang pinapagawa na akong sumusunod.
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Mga sa amin sa trabaho.
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Migrante BC was able to help Rosario get an open work permit which will allow her to leave her employer and find another job.
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Rosario wishes the Philippines will take better care of its citizens.
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Sana po pag-ibayuin nila yung mga proyekto nila para sa mga tao.
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Para hindi na po kailangang umalis ng bansa.
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I mean, kami po dito sa Canada, kung akala nyo po na napakaganda ng buhay namin dito,
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it sounds good kasi nasa Canada po kami pero ang totoo po, napakahirap pumunta dito.
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Meanwhile, the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines slammed the government's apparent lack of support for teachers and students in the country.
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The group's representative in British Columbia, Jeff Solis, is himself a teacher in Surrey.
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He says the government's neglect has affected the quality of education in the country.
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We see a complete lack in available resources.
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We see an attack on teachers who are organizing for unions, for teachers' unions in the Philippines.
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Our hope is that this new DepEd Secretary, that he will address the concerns of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers in the Philippines.
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ICHIRP also called as a just the conviction of ACT Teachers Party List Representative Franz Castro
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and former Bayan Muna Party List Representative Satoro Campo for child abuse.
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Solis says they will join forces with other Canadian groups so they can support the two erstwhile lawmakers.
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We think it's a deep injustice that because of her work, especially with the marginalized Lumad people in southern Mindanao,
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that she is criminalized for that work as well as other teachers too. So, that is a shame.
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An art installation called Bangka ng Bayan was presented at the end of the People's Sona Rally
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as an issue of foreign encroachment in the West Philippine Sea.
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Rowena Papasin, ABS-CBN News, Burnaby, British Columbia.
