Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'd just like to make a couple of points in regard to the current stream and what's happening. Employers drive the temporary foreign worker program. There are no quotas. As long as an employer applies, you can get as many as you want, as quickly as you want. So it's an employer

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I have just one point. We heard from Mr. Solberg, the minister of HRSDC, last summer indicating he was going to commission a study for the federal government around temporary foreign workers. Has this committee seen that report or does it have any understanding of where that re

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Basically we argued that all temporary foreign workers pay into the employment insurance program and therefore should be entitled to the premiums they should be eligible for. Unemployment insurance has denied temporary foreign workers from other countries, the sending countries

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, we are advocating that these workers should continue to pay into a program that provides them the full benefit of what is entitled to them. We argue that the non-residency requirement is discriminatory against sending country workers, and also that these premiums could be pro

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It is that, and workers' compensation and other civil action suits that we have taken on behalf of injured, killed, or lamed seasonal agricultural workers throughout the country.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Under the labour relations act in Quebec, if there are not three or more full-time employees on an agricultural operation, they are not covered under the act; therefore, seasonal agricultural workers have no right to unionization in the province of Quebec. Seasonal agricultural w

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Sure.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would appreciate that. Thank you.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the opportunity to address the committee today. We have been before this committee in the past, and we appreciate the opportunity for you to hear our concerns again. For the last roughly 10 years, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union has been in the forefro