Thank you very much.
Chair and colleagues, it is the firm conviction of Conservative members on this committee and beyond that the government should be transparent in its subsidy programs and that those subsidy programs should be aimed at opportunities, jobs and otherwise, for Canadians, yet we've repeatedly seen disserving revelations that this government's subsidy programs are directly resulting in the bringing in of foreign replacement workers. Canadian taxpayers are subsidizing foreign replacement workers because the government has not taken the steps to guarantee and protect jobs in Canada for Canadians.
With that in mind, Conservatives have put forward a clear and simple document production order. This is not about industrial operations or processes. This is about getting the contracts to allow us to see what the government did or did not do with respect to job guarantees. Do these contracts include real job guarantees? Do they include protection for Canadian jobs?
This is a simple document production motion allowing us to answer that basic question. Conservatives have been and will continue to be persistent in saying that the government should be protecting jobs for Canadians. We put forward this motion today to order the production of these contracts, so that we can see whether or not the government did anything and whether the government was concerned at all with the protection of jobs for Canadians. I hope that this motion will have the support of the committee.
Thank you.