I've always had an enforcement branch. This whole legislation is integrated into my employment standards branch. Manitoba has 1.2 million people. We have 600,000 workers and about 34,000 businesses. In my employment standards branch, I have about 35 investigators.
With this legislation, we received an additional five positions, two to handle the business registration, and three to deal with the investigation side, the enforcement side. What I've done is that I've used my existing resources in the employment standards side to set up a team of six people, with a manager, and for the most part they've been dealing almost full time with the worker recruitment issues.
We now believe that we're in a position where I can start moving those resources back into employment standards, because most of our illegitimate recruiters have left the province and are now working in other provinces. Our unanticipated problem now is that recruiters are bringing the workers into jurisdictions that don't have this type of legislation and are now bringing them into Manitoba. We've had numerous cases that we've dealt with in that regard.