I can just take a look at British Columbia: in Whistler alone we're short 3,500 workers. If you extrapolate the shortages there with the shortages.... I'm not even talking about Alberta and the massive shortages there. Restaurants and businesses have had to close because they can't find enough workers to staff their operations. There's a massive shortage that 3,000 new Canadians across Canada is not going to deal with.
On November 7th, 2006. See this statement in context.