Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses.
It was an excellent presentation. I don't think I could agree with you more. I'm from Alberta, from Calgary, and we have a shortage of skilled and general labour not only in the oil sands industry. Let me share with you that in my own law office, we have been trying to find someone who is able to help us with the skills we need, as an assistant even, and it's been months and months but we're not getting anyone.
As Ms. Charlton did, I will just throw out my questions and ask you to please help us and guide us as we deal with all these issues.
Number one, how do we meet the need for skilled labour for businesses? And how do we encourage workers to seek employment in areas where they are needed the most?
Then I would like to hear from you on whether, in your opinion, providing more timely and precise information to job seekers on the skills they need to find meaningful employment can help.
Also a concern is that we have been studying shortages, and on the other hand we are talking temporary foreign workers. Now, I have noticed that in some places we have a category of people filing EI claims in the same area that businesses are getting positive LMOs. How do we connect the dots in this gap?