Is this incidence considerred as a HATE CRIME? In Canada, Hate crime inculdes offense based on race, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, and disability etc. The offense can have many kinds and different severity.
As to the agent such as 海阔天空中介, if it's involved in any kind of business which potentially harms the interest of those chinese workers, it definately should not get away from it. What does it mean--- "现金工"? what does it mean that the plant pays the agent first and then the agent pays the workers? Pay by cash? Don't the workers have SIN#s? Why does it sound so shady? Will this agent protect the interest of Chinese workers or will it actually facilitate any kind of discrimination without providing any employment protection to the workers? What does it mean---"现金工是一个问题,但它绝不是现在的主要矛盾,它涉及到的只有更多的中国人,而伤害到的也是中国人,所以希望大家能够理性的看待它."? How could getting rid of one more problem harm more Chinese?! Does it mean that it is correct or better for Chinese to let more and more chinese workers underpaid while working overload and getting less or no employment benefit? What kind of "理性" is this?!
Even if those workers are involved in any kind of tax evasion, that is a separate incidence and apparantly both employer(primary employer and agent) and employees are involved. As such, how could the primary employer use the pay issue to hurt his own case if one day he is challenged in court?! Don't protect shady employment agent with the name of protecting Chinese! The existence of shady discriminatory employment agent is itself a helping hand for more humiliation, discrimination and insult. If there was any kind of tax evasion scheme, the workers would actually be victims and they should not have anything to be afraid of. There are Judges making decisions in courts, and they do consider specific circumstances. Those workers are usually low income individuals and from vulnerable group. If there were any punishement from the tax evasion, it should go to the primary employer and the employment agent, and it won't harm more chinese workers. Instead, resolving this issue will increase the wage and benefit more current and future workers.
How are those workers paid? If they are paid in an "illegal" way or very much underpaid, that is more than an offense. If employment agent got involved in this underpay scheme, it should be punished, because it ganged up with bad guys(primary employer) to discriminate and take advantage of chinese workers. So, if there is something wrong about the pay/benefit, both the primary employer and employment agent would be the defendents. How could it harm more Chinese?!