I have a very simple question, Minister. When will this office be opening?
It is indeed always disappointing when jobs are lost. you can answer my first question, but I'm going to ask a second one immediately.
The cause of that company's closing in my region was the Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada's mishandling of problems encountered in processing the papers of immigrant workers. Things always run late when the records of temporary foreign workers are being processed. That's what has happened with 300 workers. I've been an MP for four years, and I've been doing battle on this issue for four years now.
You introduced a pilot project for recognized employers. When will this pilot project, launched jointly with the Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, become permanent? Will it speed up the hiring process? Companies have had to shut down because of extremely long delays in processing immigrant workers.