As you emphasized, this is a provincial jurisdiction. That's why this report does not contain any mechanisms. As we are in Parliament, we concern ourselves with matters that come under federal jurisdiction. All parties must make submissions to the government of their province for it to establish protection mechanisms. It is not up to the federal government to address this kind of jurisdiction, particularly since there are a number of things that it is not doing to protect foreign workers, both temporary and otherwise.
I thought I understood that the enforcement mechanism wasn't a problem for you.
You talked about a province that prohibited recruitment agencies from billing fees to temporary foreign workers who come to Canada. And you said that it must be solely the employer who pays those fees.
During our consultations, we suggested transferring to the employer responsibility for recovering those illegally collected fees. In other words, workers who have been forced to pay fees to an agency, even before leaving Canada, whereas that is illegal, could ask their employer, on arrival, to be reimbursed for those fees. Then the employers would be responsible for telling the agencies they have broken the rules and that they want to be reimbursed for what they've had to pay.
Would you be in favour of that kind of mechanism?