Phil McColeman at the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee

On October 27th, 2011. See this statement in context.

October 27th, 2011 / 4:55 p.m.

Conservative

Phil McColeman Conservative Brant, ON

Thank you, Chair.

Thank you for coming today and presenting.

I'll just underscore Ms. Crowder's comments. Having been in construction for 25 years myself in the residential area, we knew about this 20 years ago, easily. It has just worsened over time.

One of the issues back in my day was interprovincial barriers that got in the way of all trades. I'd like your views from both the industrial and residential sides here. How do you view those interprovincial barriers as barriers to immigrants to come here, or to people who want to come to Canada to work in the trades? How big are those barriers, in your opinion?

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