Thank you.
Welcome, Minister.
Budget 2014 reported that Canada's job vacancy rate is 4%. We've learned that this was based on Kijiji data, which poses errors and duplications. When you drop this data, the real rate is 1.5%, not 4%. Your government ramped up the temporary foreign worker program in Canada based on this high job vacancy rate that was cited in the recent budget. Today, the Auditor General reports that Statistics Canada doesn't know where the job vacancies are. The Auditor General's report said, for example, that reported job vacancies in Alberta could be in Fort McMurray, Grande Prairie, Medicine Hat, or any other community in the province. It was not high-quality data.
Will you provide Statistics Canada with the resources it needs to calculate reliable job vacancy rates at the community level?