I'm aware of some of the inspection deficiencies that have been brought forth on the record by previous witnesses. Obviously, that is a major concern—again, going back to first principles—because of the significant power imbalances between temporary foreign workers who do not have permanent status and their employers.
Part of this is obviously a government resource problem. I'm encouraged with the direction of some of the reforms, such as providing more funding to some of these inspectors. Again, I will say that some of this is going to be inherent, if they're on temporary status in the first place.
The other thing that compounds this problem is that if you have them in isolated places—such as, for example, on farms, where it's very difficult to do an inspection, to actually go all the way out—it's very costly to do.
We might want to think about this whole thing. Instead of putting really big bandages on the symptoms, we might think of a better way to provide permanent status more quickly to people who need it and to provide ongoing settlement services so that they can fix these problems themselves; they'd have the collective bargaining ability to advocate for their own employment rights.