The government of Cuba is forcing Cuban workers in Canada to send it the greater part of the salaries they are paid by their Canadian employer, according to two former workers who spoke to CBC News.

The Cuban Communist Party also obliges its citizens to attend “political-ideological workshops” and report on dealings with Canadian colleagues, as well as limiting their movements and controlling their relationships outside work, the two said.

Cases of Cuban government wage confiscation have previously been reported in other countries, including in Brazil where Cuban doctors filed a lawsuit that led a Brazilian judge to say the practice amounted to “slave labour.”

In Canada, about half a dozen Cuban professionals work at the cobalt and nickel refinery operated for 30 years as a joint vent

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