That's a fair comment. But it's the direction that we're talking about, and generally that's a direction that you would agree with. Obviously, if we're going to meet some of these needs, the better way perhaps would be through an original application of immigration, but that's not working at present because of time and backlog. Those are two big things we have to overcome in the meantime.
If we're going to continue to use the temporary foreign worker program, I gather from many of you in what you've said that we need to have some basic national standards that employers would have to abide by, regardless of what province it is and what the labour standards of each province might be. That's what I see.
You're union people, I guess, and you're concerned about cheap labour, you're concerned about people in Canada being displaced. But put that argument aside, because we can argue that back and forth, if you like.
Would you be prepared as a union to sort of shepherd or advocate on behalf of temporary foreign workers if you had a baseline to work from, bring them in under your umbrella?