It's really at their discretion, but we would hope that they would only write to us asking for an LMO exemption if and when they see a very acute labour shortage, when there are just clearly not enough Canadians, and when over time employers just cannot get enough Canadians for a particular occupational category.
I'll give you an example.
In northern Alberta, with these huge mining developments, there's a very acute shortage in certain skilled trades, such as welders and boilermakers, so they wrote to us to say that even though they'd increased the number of students being turned out of their vocational institutes and even though the number of apprenticeships was going up, they still had a very acute shortage, and they asked us to please exempt, at least on a pilot basis, six specific skilled trades from the LMO requirement. We were happy to cooperate.
We're watching that closely. If we find that there are integrity problems, we'll shut down the pilot program.