Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I think, Mr. Power and Mr. Dalton, you were here when I made my remarks to the other unions earlier this morning. I'm not going to repeat what I said because I'm short of time and I want to address another problem. But let me say that I think the whole structure of our temporary foreign workers has to be seriously looked at from top to bottom and bottom to top. And that's the recommendation I'm making to this committee.
I'll simply stop there because I think you heard my remarks this morning.
Let me go to Madam Burnaby and Madam Jeffrey.
Is there a bilateral entente between the federal government and the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador regarding the settlement of immigrants?
Let me backtrack. Twenty years ago, Quebec was the first of the provinces to actually have a bilateral agreement with the federal government by which the federal government would give the Province of Quebec so many dollars every year, and then Quebec would use those dollars--seeing that it's Quebec--as they wanted. The point was it would help immigration and it would help what you call “settlement” and what we call “integration”.
Is there such an agreement in Newfoundland and Labrador?