I first want to clarify that the number of consultative sessions we have held with ministers and officials over the last number of months included employers, labour groups, advocacy groups, and advocates for low-skilled foreign workers. We had very lively discussions at a number of those sessions.
With regard to fees, particularly if we're speaking about the labour market opinion fee, I think Mr. Vermaeten has already addressed that. We want to ensure that the cost of the labour market opinion process is not borne by the taxpayer. We want to ensure that it helps create a reasonable balance of incentive, that employers are cautious about going down the path of looking for temporary foreign workers, that they exhaust all other available avenues first, and that the fee serves as a disincentive to casual or speculative use of the program, for example, saying “We might need four or five this year, so let's apply for 20 labour market opinions”, which had been a common theme in the past.
The government has also introduced legislative authority to create an additional privilege fee related to work permits, the second stage of the application process. We haven't worked out exactly what this fee will do, but it will be designed to apply particularly in labour market opinion exempt categories. There's a large number of those under provincial authorities, under international trade law, free trade agreements, youth mobility programs, to ensure that the overall cost of the administrative regime, including the analysis of whether or not a labour market opinion exemption applies, including good compliance and enforcement measures, is borne by those who are getting the advantage from the program.