The recommendation in paragraph 5.83 of your report reads as follows:
Employment and Social Development Canada should use its expanded powers to increase the scope of its inspections by ensuring that all the relevant conditions are covered. It should also conduct more on-site inspections and explore the option of conducting some without notice, to further enhance its ability to detect non-compliance.
Our government accepted this recommendation.
Our government is taking the necessary steps to follow through on its commitment to better protect vulnerable foreign workers and increase the number of inspections of workplaces where temporary foreign workers are employed. In addition, these inspections will be conducted using an approach that prioritizes the workplaces that are most at risk.
We know that the agriculture sector employs many temporary foreign workers all across the country, especially in Quebec. Your audit goes back to 2013, when the Conservative Party was in power. What kinds of weaknesses did it identify as regards workplace inspections in the agriculture sector?