I wasn't talking about the report as a whole. There are a number of points in the report that I wanted to examine. I believe that Ms. Quash spoke to me about an open permit enabling domestic workers to switch between employers. That idea was taken up by committee members, as was the idea of abolishing the residence requirement.
The report also contains a proposal that I had put forward, and I thank my colleagues for supporting it. We require that temporary foreign workers, including domestic workers, meet with an organization such as yours or an NGO a few months before they arrive to enable them to leave their work place and to make sure that everything is going well.
The problem we've often observed is that these people often live at their employer's homes and are cut off from society. They have no way of knowing their rights or of saying what is going on in their work place. By compelling them, in a way, to meet with an organization, committee members thought that might help them report situations of abuse and gain a better understanding of their rights.
Do you think that measure adopted by the committee is a good one?