E/CN.4/2001/83/Add.1 page 19 68. Another of the matters raised with the Special Rapporteur by a number of domestic workers was the actual possibility of reporting employers. They all recognized that they had the right to report abuses. However, in many cases they said that they could not do so in practice, since, if they lodged a complaint against their employer, they were afraid they would lose the possibility of finding work because their complaint would be mentioned on their immigrant file. In particular, they said that they needed references to find new employment and that, if they lodged a complaint, the bad references given by their former employer would prevent them finding a new job rapidly, which in many cases would prevent them from accumulating the working time necessary to claim permanent residence. C. Temporary workers 69. The Special Rapporteur also interviewed representatives of temporary workers and specifically temporary agricultural workers. According to what she was told, concerns are still felt regarding the enjoyment of these people’s rights. The Mexican workers who met with the Special Rapporteur complained that, while working hours were specified in agreements with Mexico, they were not set in the agreements with other Caribbean countries, a fact which gave rise to countless abuses. They also complained that, although the agreement with Mexico specified working hours, there was a clause that gave employers the possibility, “in urgent cases”, to require longer working hours. According to the workers interviewed, the agreements do not mention payment for such overtime. 70. One of the temporary agricultural workers interviewed by the Special Rapporteur handed her an account of his personal situation and enclosed photographs illustrating the poor conditions and overcrowding of dormitories. This person was a temporary worker from Mexico, complaining that sometimes workers were loaned to carry out work for other employers who were not those they were contracted with. According to him, this type of practice left them in a situation of greater vulnerability and exposed to worse abuse. He informed the Special Rapporteur that the practice was forbidden under section VIII of the agreement. The temporary worker who had denounced this type of practice was being pressured by the employer and thought he ran the risk of not being included the following year in the temporary work programme. According to information given to the Special Rapporteur, in the year 2000 Canada would have received around 8,000 Mexican agricultural workers. IV. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS A. Conclusions 71. Canada has had to deal with one of the issues which is currently among the foremost concerns of Governments and civil society, namely, trafficking in persons and illegal border crossings assisted by trafficking agents. Nowadays people want to go to Canada not only for the economic opportunity it offers, but also because it is a stable and democratic country governed according to the rule of law. In this respect, as occurred in British Columbia, migration, both legal and illegal, often tends to occur spontaneously. Since Canada has a regulated immigration system, the greatest problem for the country in this regard is how to respond to people who arrive in Canada spontaneously, whether by normal channels or after travelling in terrible conditions.