That's a great idea, which we'd certainly support--any way to speed it up.
I agree with the point about Service Canada representatives looking at HR plans. It obviously needs to be done to some degree, but is there a way to maybe put in place a service standard that says it's a two-week turnaround on some of these things? So maybe some of the service standards could be improved, and maybe the level of detail could be ratcheted down.
It should be enough if a company says “We need a chemical engineer in painting, and we've searched. This is our ad in the paper and we haven't come up with anyone reasonable.” They shouldn't have to submit a mountain of paperwork to anyone. The Canadian government needs to take the word of the companies that are trying to do the job. If you can't get that one person in, it could create unemployment for dozens of others. So it's a bigger problem.
Those are a couple of things, if that's any help.