Bonita Zarrillo at the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee

On March 31st, 2022. See this statement in context.

March 31st, 2022 / 5:25 p.m.

NDP

Bonita Zarrillo NDP Port Moody—Coquitlam, BC

Thank you so much.

Thank you to all the witnesses who have come in and shared today.

I heard about retirements quite a bit in the testimony. Maybe each of the witnesses could talk about their industry and retirements, and whether there was planning five years or a decade before.

If there was planning around retirements, why are local workers not backfilling? Why are some of these jobs not getting backfilled by local workers and how did we get to the point where we're relying so heavily on foreign workers?

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