Right.
As I see it, there are really two streams to filling these jobs. There is what I would call domestic, homegrown talent, and there is international recruitment where required.
A number of you have mentioned the labour market opinion, LMO, process. Do you have any specific recommendations for us that would significantly improve that? I've had some frustration about it as well. Local employers have come into my office to talk about the LMO process. I'm a new member of Parliament. I'm learning how the bureaucracy works and how the system works.
Do you have any specific ideas of what we can do to speed it up and also to make sure it's accurate? One of the accusations made by some people is that they don't believe companies are actually hiring local people, but are saying that it's easier to steal somebody from another country, and overlook domestic workers, which I don't think we want as Canadians. We want to put Canadian workers first. I do believe there are situations where we don't have enough trained domestic workers with the skill sets to move into those jobs ASAP, or fairly ASAP.
Do you have any specific recommendations for us around the LMO process, where the private sector can help the staff in HRSDC speed up the process and better understand what the skill gaps and labour shortages are in certain areas? Do you see any other role that private sector organizations like yours can play to improve the LMO process?
Mr. Elliott, you mentioned it specifically.