There are several reasons.
In Canada I was actually very pleased to hear some of the comments coming from Liberal MPs in Atlantic Canada. I guess any MP in Atlantic Canada right now is a Liberal MP. The comments from several MPs and from the New Brunswick Minister of Fisheries were that we have to begin to accept that there are sectors of the economy, types of work, as well as regions of the country where people are just not terribly interested in taking the jobs that are available.
The example that was being used at the time was fish plants. The demand from Atlantic Canada is to ensure that there are more temporary foreign workers or permanent residents who come in to take jobs in fish plants because Canadians are not lining up for them themselves.
That example is extended beyond fish plants to all sorts of sectors of the economy, a growing number of sectors of the economy. Wages do play a role in that for some sectors, but we know that in the meat processing industry there are giant numbers of jobs with nobody applying for them. For agricultural jobs, it's the same. Young Canadians are not lining up for those jobs. Even for retail, hospitality—running hotels, changing hotel rooms—I have to tell you that employers are struggling often to do that even when the unemployment rate is high.
I have the example in Banff right now. There are loads of hotels that are sitting with areas closed even though there are customers who want those rooms, simply because they can't find the people to clean them and to take care of them. We shouldn't be losing out that way.
The temporary foreign worker changes that the Tories implemented were brutal and really made a bad problem a lot worse.