Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm not sure there's any need for us to.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There hasn't in my memory.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We have 110 at our facility.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We currently have 42.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We're non-union.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Speaking purely from our experience--and I guess from an employer's experience--once the LMO pre-approval has been completed, the confirmation process tends to be an area where things get dramatically bogged down. It seems to me there are really no timetables within which those steps are expected to take, and secondly, at the embassy level, we experience the same types of problems.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are 42 out of 110.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It is 15%.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  They are semi-skilled.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think that's a fair concern that folks might develop. Certainly the LMO process requires that we show due diligence in that regard--show that we've done everything we can to attract workers from the local market. It's done through whatever traditional means, but in addition to that there are creative means to attract local workers.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, we have two meat packing plants in central Alberta. We also have a farm division, which is both livestock and farming, and we have a retail store division as well.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thanks for inviting us here today. I don't have a brief, so what I will do is try as best I can to give you a perspective from a business standpoint, and in particular our business' standpoint. I am with Sunterra Meats. We have a series of companies in the province—agriculture, meat processing, and retail—and I'm the general manager of the Innisfail plant.