I can talk about one initiative that Moose Jaw undertook.
A lot of our refugee clients don't come with proper documentation. Because of the situation of having to flee their country so quickly, they don't have documents, they don't have birth certificates, they don't have high school diplomas.
XL Beef, a few years ago, was crying for workers. You had to have a grade 12 diploma to work at XL Beef.
Well, we had clients whose immigration papers, which were the only documents they had, said “12” under “years of education”. Some visa officer had believed them or had seen documentation at one point and had written on that paper that they had 12 years.
We went to XL Beef and, working with them, said, “Is there not something we can do? You need the workers. We have the people. There is a gap here.” They relaxed the regulation a little bit and said that if they could prove they had 12 years, or a grade 12 diploma—either/or.... We have a lot of clients who have been working for the past three or four years at XL Beef, and they're very happy there. That's just a small example of what can be done to accommodate people and to get more workers.