Olymipic Legacy?

As if the explicit problems with the RAV/Canada Line rapid transit line weren't enough, including cost overruns, likely-inflated ridership projections, putting the taxpayers on the line for 90% of the cost if ridership revenues aren't as high as expectations, a cut/cover tunnel on Cambie Street after being promised a bored tunnel, using public pension funds to shield SNC/Lavelin from risk, etc. I now hear this morning that it has surfaced that imported labourers are being used and are being payed far less than minimum wage. From the CBC BC website:

The B.C. and Yukon Building and Construction Trades Council says more than 50 workers from Costa Rica, Peru and Colombia are working long hours with no overtime — which works out to a wage of less than $5 an hour.

This sounds like another triumph for P3's and our so-called free market. I hope this gets really big, because I imagine it's more common than we think.

What a disgrace.

I should add that the allegations have been denied so far, but I am quite interested to see how things go.