As an employer who switched LMOs for employees, we've had other drivers come to us from other companies that are involved in the program. That process is relatively easy for an employer who is similar to us, who has bulk LMO allocation.
So I think the issue is, if employees lose their work permit through no cause of their own—that is, they get laid off, in the instance of Dell yesterday in Edmonton—where they had no control over the outcome of their work permit, there could be something built into the system for those instances.
What I fear is that if we allow the transfer of employees throughout industries and throughout carriers or employers en masse, when an employee is not a good fit not only for our company but for Canada, if that employee is free to go to any employer because of his or her work permit, we have no check and balance on where that employee ultimately ends up.
Sometimes there's a reason an employee is dismissed on a particular work permit. So we very much do due diligence when we get an applicant for driver who has been here from, say, Roberge Trucking, or a Yanke, or a Bison Transport.
We definitely want to do all the background checks to ensure the reasons that employee left that company, because we don't want to continue a cycle of somebody we just don't need, who was just a bad hire or a bad fit. So I would caution you on opening that up.