Is it undocumented workers we're talking about here? That's a somewhat different question from where we are in terms of the immigration system.
Clearly, and I'm not telling tales out of school here, there is an issue with respect to undocumented and under-documented workers, in the Toronto construction industry in particular. We know. We have union members working away on job sites who don't have the legal status to do so; nevertheless, they are being employed at full union rates with full benefits because we don't have the workers.
I'm not going to put my friends from the home builders on the spot, but I'm sure if you asked them in the hallways, they would acknowledge that every subdivision in Toronto has a share of undocumented workers.
We are a construction union. I spend my life defending workers. The most vulnerable workers in Canada are undocumented construction workers—