The common kitchen area at a Fraser Valley farm's "living quarters" rented out to migrant farmworkers.
New living standards regulations for farmworkers were finally passed in 1983, after a four-year battle by the Canadian Farmworkers' Union, but "When Health Minister Jim Neilsen approved the document containing the new regulations appended to the Health Act, he didn't appear to know what he was signing. When contacted by the Sun, Neilsen first denied any knowledge of the document. Later, he said 'regulations are changed quite frequently. I didn't know they were that significant.'" - Vancouver Sun, Dec. 14, 1983
"This is the farmworkers' housing law that we have been fighting for for so long. The government doesn't really care about farmworkers' lives. Anything related to farmworkers' conditions, they take so casually. And the regulations (Neilsen) signed, he didn't even look at them. The people who put food on his table he doesn't really care about." - CFU President Raj Chouhan, December, 1983
"This is the 20th Century. It is not asking too much that a shower nozzle be available for somebody who is working around poison." - CFU Legal Services co-ordinator Calvin Sandborn, December,1983