Well, certainly, we wouldn't be here if they were sufficient. We've got serious cases that have been brought before us.
Part of the problem is with that aspect of the labour broker side of it. I call them the slave traders. They don't bring them in ships any more; they bring them in airplanes. But what they're doing is bringing people here in a global market, and we have to recognize that it is that global market. We can create any kind of legislation here in Canada or in a province or in a municipality that we want, but influencing other countries, the host countries, is a serious concern for us. We have asked to sign on to the human rights convention as well—or ratify it, because we have signed on and we just have not ratified it—because we believe those kinds of agreements that are made between countries right now have to hold these rights really imperative for workers and for the employers.
As an example, part of the discussion we had this morning dealt with the need to write into those agreements what the responsibilities of the Canadian government are and what the responsibilities of the host government are. If there is a broker or a contractor who is operating with people from another country and they violate, then what happens to them in that other country as well? It's not just here, because we can legislate and we can act here, but we have to make those connections.
As I said earlier, we've got one contractor right now who is intricately linked with the broker and the broker is intricately linked with the loan shark company in the country of origin, but we can't get that information to lay it down on the table and say this is what it is, because we have to access the other country and we can't do that.
So there are problems inherent with making sure not just that we have everything ready here and that everything is enforceable, but also that it is in the other country. So those agreements are very important, and we would hope that these kinds of issues would be brought up within those agreements, to ensure that everybody is treated correctly.