Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Hello, Mr. Ferguson.
Thank you for your work as Auditor General of Canada and welcome to the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities.
One of the recommendations in your report is as follows:
Employment and Social Development Canada should work with provinces and territories to develop and finalize information-sharing agreements and use the information obtained to inform its enforcement activities.
Our government has accepted your recommendation. These agreements are pivotal to the overall administration of the temporary foreign worker program and the protection of vulnerable temporary foreign workers.
I would like to hear about your analysis of the sharing of information regarding the protection of vulnerable temporary foreign workers, specifically the information sharing with respect to Quebec, or with other provinces, the federal government or even the workers. I would like to know, more specifically, whether the sharing of information was more difficult in certain cases owing to a language barrier between program officers or even with the workers. I am asking this because the last thing we want is for a problem case to drag on for those reasons.