Zucel Osiowy, a former Cuban professor of physics, has worked for 14 years on a farm near Abernethy, Canada.

This Cuban, initially emigrated to the city of Regina, where she led a life of “city girl”, lives on the farm with her husband Bruce Osiowy and their daughter, and learned to rake and harvest, tells a report dedicated to Au couple , broadcast by the local news channel CTVNews Regina.

The Osiowy family grows canola, wheat and flax on 2.5 pints of land.

The Cuban admits that learning the trade of agriculture was difficult, but she took her pulse by observing her husband and with the support of other farmers’ wives.

She sat in the passenger seat and watched her husband, until the day she got behind the wheel.

“If you know the farmers, they just want you to do it, do it, do it,” he explained.

“I’m resting and trying to do my best, just to help her harvest,” he adds.

The report of this local television describes the daily life of this couple of farmers and the nature of the work they do.

Zucel burns the straw left over from the flax, so it doesn’t get tangled in the equipment when planting the next season. This is one of the tasks he performs with more caution.

“Even in summer, I think of flax, when it needs to be burned. It’s a very, very scary thing on the farm when there’s a fire,” he says.

When he’s not on the combine, he cooks for the family.

She faced many fears during her time as a farmer’s wife, but she didn’t want it any other way.

“We are not afraid,” he said.

This Cuban woman is not the only success story of the island diaspora in Canada.

Last July, it emerged that Ernesto Almeida Acuña, 46, from Havana, will compete for a seat in the provincial parliament of Montreal, where he aspires to represent his neighbors in the municipality of L’Assomption; more than twenty thousand inhabitants, and to influence relations between Canada and Cuba, based on democracy and human rights.

Almeida, who is a member of the Conservative Party and is part of regional leader Éric Duhaime’s candidacy, arrived in Canada in 2001 with a residence and work permit and wants to help change the image of Cuba that many Canadians; linking it only to beaches and tourism; winning a seat in the October provincial election.

Before Almeida, from Havana, other Cubans participated in Canadian elections, such as the case, in chronological order, of Bladimir Laborit Infante, who seven years ago led a candidacy of the Forces and Democracy party, also in the region from Quebec; Likes Calle Cabrera and Surelys Pérez Hernández; both for the Conservative Party, in the Montreal region; and all three in the federal parliament; without getting a seat.