Ms. Fraser, thank you for coming.
Your report basically said there is no plan, no system, no strategic planning, no vision, no quality assurance framework, no measures to improve the integrity of the temporary foreign workers program, and no monitoring. It's pretty damning.
What we have here is a huge temporary foreign workers program, involving over 200,000 workers, and yet you see the number of skilled workers is soon going to fall from 96,000 to 46,000. I've added the federal and the Quebec skilled workers. So unless you have seen some philosophical policy underpinning this, it seems to me to be driven completely by “whatever the employer wants, the employer gets”. Without an overall strategic plan, what kind of danger do you think we might see, say 10 years down the road, or even this year? What will happen to this huge number--200,000--of temporary foreign workers in Canada if the integrity of the program is not well protected? These workers can easily go underground if they can't find jobs anymore because there's no strategic plan, because they may not want to leave. That means we could have a large number of undocumented workers in Canada, and some of them might apply for refugee status. Then there would be a complete mess. You had a report on CBSA two years ago about that problem; this is going to be a lot worse.
So where do you think this is heading, and why is it that way?