I'll start.
First of all, the employer approaches HRSDC or Service Canada in the regions in each province making a request for a labour market opinion. For instance, they need a certain number of employees in a particular occupation. They identify the advertising they've undertaken, the wage they're proposing to pay, and we do an assessment of that application. That's the quickest explanation of what it is. We produce an opinion that describes the impact that we expect the bringing in of those workers will have on the Canadian labour market. That is what we provide to the employer. If it's a positive or neutral opinion, the employer then takes the next step and goes to CIC with the names of the employees they would like to bring in. It is the employees' responsibility to deal with CIC. I'll let Mr. Linklater speak to that. We deal only with the employers and we deal only with their specific applications.
You mentioned how we collaborate with the provinces. Of course, we do work very closely with the provinces. Generally, though, it is HRSDC, Service Canada's responsibility to take a decision on a labour market opinion. The exception is with Quebec, where we have a memorandum of understanding, a long-standing agreement by which Quebec actually has the final word on whether or not they concur with the labour market opinion that we produced.