Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My question relates to the matching of manpower requirements with our immigration policy. In the province of Ontario we have a program whereby we go abroad and bring in farm workers who have the skills to pick maybe 10 bushels of tomatoes and so on, whereas the federal policy deals with a points system where we look at people with more professional skills.
Can you reconcile two questions I have? How does the business or the industry of a particular province reflect its need and requirement to the province to meet those labour needs? How does the province reflect that to the federal government to reconcile that the two immigration selection criteria are not exactly in step with each other? The federal government requirement looks at a broader skill set, whereas some of these lower skill sets are also very much needed in areas like agriculture and the mining industry.