I wouldn't want us to get involved in partisan debates. The government has signed international human rights conventions. All these programs contravene conventions that Canada has previously ratified. Like our colleagues this morning, we also ask that Canada sign the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights and Welfare of Migrant Workers and Members of their Families.
Here's one of our biggest questions: how is it that Canada, for which human rights are so important and which presents such a good image to the world, has not yet ratified that convention?
Ms. Chow, you said that the workers also had families. However, the workers are used as cheap labour. In the case of the temporary workers program, they are completely isolated from their families.