Can I develop this one other point, Mr. Young, that you've hit on?
There are a lot of people in the labour unions and perhaps even in Parliament who have tried to create a perception of the temporary foreign worker program as basically the organized exploitation of vulnerable, low-skilled temporary foreign workers who are all being massively underpaid, and it's all Dickensian factory drudgery and everything. This is ridiculous. This is an urban legend that's been cultivated by some interest groups.
The reality is that only 8% of the 190,000 temporary foreign workers given entry to Canada last year were in the conventional low-skilled category. I think another 11% were in the seasonal agricultural worker program, which is absolutely a sine qua non of the agricultural industry now.
The vast majority of temporary foreign workers are either highly skilled, like the people we're talking about here, or people coming on their working holiday programs, like young French and Aussies and Kiwis, who end up working in the service industry and in the tourism sector, etc. Some of them find jobs in sectors like this and stay as permanent residents.
This is an opportunity for me to clarify some of the misconceptions on this issue.