It was the late 1990s. I think it was around that time.
In Quebec, for example, the forestry industry has been decimated. There is a large number of unemployed, and in the manufacturing industry also, a lot of older workers are unemployed. There really hasn't been much of a training program to help people find some alternatives, and so we're seeing in some parts of Quebec that people are going to Alberta for the oil sands, and yet in the meantime we're bringing in temporary foreign workers.
So some part of me says, okay, that doesn't quite work, because it's really depressing the wages and lowering the wages. And you have high unemployment in some regions; in other regions we need a lot of workers, and in the meantime, they're not coming in as landed immigrants. As a result, they come back year after year and they never get a chance to stay here permanently. They don't have health care, they don't have labour rights, etc. They can't bring their families into Canada, and they're separated from their families eight months of the year.