Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm very concerned about some of the things we're hearing today. What we're talking about is the mismanagement of the temporary foreign worker program, and that's the root cause for both the inaccurate assessments of the Canadian labour market's ability to fill employment needs and the inadequate response to the individual needs of industries like this one.
A major focus of this study is the creation of high-value domestic employment. Creating good jobs for Canadians is our primary and ultimate goal here. That's why we're doing this study. We're not here to talk about how we construct a system where we can bring in permanent residents to fill highly skilled jobs in this sector. That's not what we're talking about here.
To be fair, you have said that you're confused. You've said that you don't understand the situation here. You've also said that there must be a lag in terms of the concerns the gaming industry has, but in fact we just heard from witnesses, so there can't be a lag; they're dealing with this situation on the ground right now.
Do you not think that you really need to take a serious look at what's actually going on, sector by sector; that one-size-fits-all doesn't work; that this industry is one that really needs some attention in a different way; that you can't compare welders to senior game management?
Really what we want to do here, and what we need to support, is what the industry has said they want: they want to see a transfer of skills so that Canadians get trained up as quickly as possible, and in the meantime deal with the labour gap. That's what the industry needs.
We're not hearing that understanding here, and I'm really concerned about that. Could you—