Thank you.
Secretary Zerucelli attended the committee on internal trade yesterday as co-chair of the forum of labour market ministers, where the labour market ministers came to a national consensus around amending the Canadian Free Trade Agreement that would allow for several changes that will ensure consistency of credentials and administrative procedures and advance the mobility of workers. This includes ensuring that workers have to have a response within 30 business days of their request to move between jurisdictions; that there would be a harmonized number of demands that can be put on workers, limiting the number of administrative requests apprenticeship authorities can request from individual workers; and finally, that there would be transparency for workers and Canadians on the responses to those demands by workers.
The secretary secured that agreement yesterday.