Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, they are not, sir. No, they are not, and they're being ignored. We've got employers who have promised in their LMOs to pay $24 an hour, and when the workers get here they're paid $12 or something. The problem is that there's no federal mechanism in place, there are no inspec

Citizenship and Immigration committee  With all due respect, I have to question the premise of your question. You began by saying that the demand for this program came from employers, and therefore we must expand the program. That's the starting point of our concern and our argument. Over the last two years especiall

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Good afternoon. As the chair said, my name is Gil McGowan. I'm president of the Alberta Federation of Labour. As you probably know, the AFL is the largest union organization in Alberta. Unions affiliated with our federation represent about 140,000 workers across the province in