Chef Mahavir Dhirwan waves a fistful of unlined white paper in the crisp autumn air.
The papers contain Dhirwan's account in Hindi — meticulously recorded in flowing blue ballpoint pen — of his mistreatment in the kitchens of some of Toronto's finest Indian restaurants.
He tells how he was cheated out of wages after working 12-hour days, six days a week. He recounts how employers insisted on paying him cash to save money on payroll taxes and how this denied him the opportunity to build a Canadian work record. And he lays the blame on a federal program that lets employers bring foreign workers here on a temporary basis.
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