Citizenship and Immigration committee  Access to unions: I would just add that to Roberto's comment.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We also, every day, see people like Kimberly and Gerald Lizano-Sossa, 14- and 15-year-old kids, stand up and fight and try to explain why they want to be Canadians, why they want to go to school here, why they want to work here, why they want to live here. If people in those kinds of conditions have the courage to stand up and speak out, then certainly we have an obligation to try to do our best to represent them.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Perhaps I could just add one quick point to that. I definitely agree with the statements made by both Debbie and Roberto, but I think also that the issue raised by a number of trade unions across the country, including the Canadian Labour Congress, was about whether the crisis of worker shortage is a real crisis or whether we are not looking closely at how these particular positions are underpaid and therefore become undesirable.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. I think the fact that they're not unionized here also has a tremendous impact on the level of reporting of abuses. In places where temporary foreign workers are unionized and have access to unions, they also have access to bodies that can document and then echo their voices.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. Our deputation is going to address predominantly the issue of undocumented workers, but we're going to make a few references to temporary foreign workers as well. I'm here on behalf of Status Now! Campaign in Defense of Undocumented Immigrants. Our campaign includes various national, regional, and local immigrant refugee organizations, trade unions, and agencies.