A major, and we think significant, change is the use to which the program is being put by employers. When this program was first established more than 40 years ago, it was clear that the temporary foreign worker program should only be used as a stopgap measure and as a tool of last resort for human resources.
But increasingly across the country, but especially here in Alberta, employers are looking at the temporary foreign worker program not as a stopgap measure, not as a tool of last resort, but as their first choice for finding workers for their projects. Just as an example, I had a recent conversation with a project manager--