Perhaps you could finish describing that, because I know you ran out of time.
Right now the minister seems to be saying that she would like to honour the agreements with the provinces and territories regarding the provincial nominee program, or temporary foreign worker. In the case of Quebec it's the Canada-Quebec accord. What that does is it actually allows the provinces to bring in whatever numbers they want. If the employers put in the applications, they are most likely going to get the numbers they want. There isn't really any upper target number.
In Alberta alone, as we've heard, already 100,000 people have applied for temporary foreign workers. According to the Alberta Federation of Labour, it's 100,000 so far, and maybe 50,000 of them have already arrived here, I don't know.
There is a massive expansion of the need for temporary foreign workers, partially because a lot of the workers we need are not able to come to Canada through the permanent resident program because of the point system. They just don't have enough points to come.
So first, yes, fix the point system, but with these agreements should there be an upper limit? Should they be contained so that we would no longer expand this temporary foreign workers program?
If not, what's happening is that with Bill C-50, they're going to leap up in front of the line. They're going to come in, in a massive number, as quickly as possible, because the minister is going to give priority--you can tell from what she's saying already--to all the temporary foreign workers because the workplace has said they need them. As they say, you ain't seen nothing yet: there will be huge numbers of cases of this kind and some of the tragedies that you are describing.
I would invite your comments.