Human Resources Committee on June 1st, 2016

Evidence of meeting #15 for Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was industry.

A video is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Temporary Foreign Worker Program

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Bruce Webster As an Individual

Robert Watson President and Chief Executive Officer, Information Technology Association of Canada

Marcia Barret Representative, Caregivers' Action Centre

Jeremy Janzen Senior Director, Human Resources, HyLife

Baerbel Langner In House Legal Counsel, Immigration, HyLIfe

Portia MacDonald-Dewhirst Executive Director, Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council

Mark Wales Labour Task Force, Agriculture, Agriculture and Agri-Food Labour Task Force

Naveen Mehta General Counsel, Director of Human Rights, Equity and Diversity, United Food and Commercial Workers Union Canada

Claudia Colocho United Food and Commercial Workers Union Canada

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Liberal

Dan Ruimy Liberal Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge, BC

Amendments in 2014 attempted to reduce the number of temporary foreign workers, and this was with the previous government. What are your thoughts about those changes? How did they impact the situation?

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal Bryan May

Very briefly, please.

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Liberal

Dan Ruimy Liberal Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge, BC

Very briefly.

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General Counsel, Director of Human Rights, Equity and Diversity, United Food and Commercial Workers Union Canada

Naveen Mehta

In a couple of words, it was a ridiculous response to political imperatives in the previous regime, which felt it was bad for industry, bad for workers, bad for Canada, and bad for the economy.

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Liberal

Dan Ruimy Liberal Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge, BC

Thank you.

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal Bryan May

Seeing that we're at the bottom of the hour, I would like to thank all of you for your attendance and your testimony on this study. I'd like to thank all of the committee members, my stand-in clerk, and the analysts. Once again, thank you very much.

We will not be coming back. Unfortunately, we do have more than one vote, so we will be adjourning today.

There is a special thank you to Mr. Bossio for standing in for Yves. To all those involved in making us look fantastic on television, I appreciate that as well.

We are adjourned.