I'd just like to make a couple of points in regard to the current stream and what's happening.
Employers drive the temporary foreign worker program. There are no quotas. As long as an employer applies, you can get as many as you want, as quickly as you want. So it's an employer-driven program.
What we're seeing from employers is the need for blue-collar workers, if I can call them that. So the temporary foreign worker program is expanding rapidly, with no quotas whatsoever.
The problem is that the points program doesn't recognize blue-collar workers. Therefore, they're out of the queue. They can't get into the queue. They don't qualify. So the federal government over the last couple of years has tried to develop little band-aid solutions around trying to fix that.
The PNP, the provincial nominee program, the economic class now that is being put in place, the high-skilled workers program, all those are, again, employer-driven programs. So employers are again seeking ways to address the problem, the broken system of the points program, through these three types of programs.
What we're saying is, recognize the problem. Employers need blue-collar workers. Change the points program so they can be identified and dealt with appropriately.