It's very important that undocumented workers and any worker in Canada, any person in Canada, not be exploited. We have labour codes, we have laws, and we have to use these existing mechanisms to enforce....
But if we can get systems going where we work better through temporary or permanent immigrants, or through developing the Canadian labour force through training and so on—and we need that too. I predict that the labour shortages will be tight enough that we will need all of these mechanisms; it's not a case of either/or. Then we can avoid that. There are always going to be some unscrupulous law breakers; they are going to exist. But right now in B.C., the labour market is sufficiently tight that the limited evidence we can get for undocumented workers is that they are already in the industries that pay low wages, like restaurants and hotels.
They are already earning more than the minimum wage because the labour market is so tight that even undocumented workers can now set their own terms and conditions, and they are rather hard to exploit, because if you exploit them, there are other employers who would want them.