Mr. Worswick, I'm going to go with you. I want to talk some economics.
You said, I'm going to quote from an article, “The reason employers choose to bring in foreigners rather than hire local youth is the 'elephant in the room' in the debate around temporary foreign workers, Worswick said, and it has to do with work ethic”.
I have a son, and he's pretty sharp. He's a little suspicious of evolution. He said, “Dad, if we'd evolved, I think we would have turned out to be like a big old snake. We'd have about one meal a month, just lie around, and not have to do a lot. Instead, about three times a day, I'm hungry and it just kind of reminds me I have to get up and get back to work.”
I'm probably a little older than you are, but you probably have the same memories. I remember as a kid in my neck of the woods down in southwestern Ontario—a lot of farming goes on there—we couldn't wait until harvest time, the spring or the fall, because if we wanted to wear blue jeans when we went back to high school, we had to make a little bit of money. It's somewhat ironic that the very people who criticize the foreign worker program the most are the ones who have implemented these things that have caused it. I'm just wondering if you want to comment on that.
I have one final observation. We always have had foreign workers, haven't we? We used to call them immigrants. Again, back in my day, people would come into this neck of the woods. I know our friends from Quebec were the ones who picked the tomatoes. We just had this steady supply of people, but we've run out of that. Is there any turning back? Is there a way we can get out of this?