With all due respect, I have to question the premise of your question. You began by saying that the demand for this program came from employers, and therefore we must expand the program. That's the starting point of our concern and our argument.
Over the last two years especially, this program has been allowed to grow exponentially, and it was in response to pressure from the business community, but it was the result of decisions made by the federal government. Up until very recently, this was a very narrow program that brought in a very narrow group of workers. But over the last five years, and especially two years, it's been allowed to explode into a whole bunch of areas of employment and a whole bunch of occupations that were never being brought in.
What we're saying is that there's a responsibility for the federal government, as the level of government responsible for the program, to make sure that if we are expanding this program, necessary safeguards are put in place. And with all due respect, these reassurances about the provincial governments taking care of these workers and the RCMP taking care of these workers are misplaced. The federal government does have a responsibility because it's the federal government's program—