Yes, I do. Thank you.
Our situation, as we were given the information from Service Canada, basically leads us to believe that before we can make a job offer to a foreign national to come and work in Canada for a period of time, we are required to prove to the Canadian government that we have exhausted every opportunity to hire a Canadian resident, whether a Canadian citizen or a landed immigrant. That requires us to advertise nationally, and we have to make sure that we do have evidence of advertising, evidence of looking for people and interviewing the skill categories to make sure we have made a reasonable effort and have offered them the wages the Government of Canada requires us to or deems to be reasonable. If that whole process fails, then Service Canada will consider giving us the go-ahead, based on that labour market opinion, to hire somebody from outside of the country.
We think that given the labour market conditions today, it's extremely onerous, totally unnecessary, causes extreme delays, and really doesn't take the international competition for skilled labour into account. To give you an idea, when we started interviewing people outside of the country for the jobs we have, most of the original applicants we offered jobs to ended up in places like Europe, Australia, Brazil, or Singapore, simply because it was significantly faster to get processing in those countries than it was in Canada.