Thank you.
I want to ask about the issue of the closed permit and its implications, because it does give an enormous amount of power and potential for abuse. Even if someone does know their rights, if they are let go, they lose their status here.
I have seen this in other areas. I'm not going to talk about individual cases, but I became aware of a young girl who was going to be deported. She was in a home in which they were physically abusing her. They told her that if she spoke up, her permit would be revoked, and she'd be deported. It almost happened.
If I became aware of something like this, then I'm sure things like this happen a fair amount of the time.
If we are going to have a just system of immigration and care work, you're suggesting that we need to be able to allow families such as Ms. Gerente's to come and be part of our Canadian society and that we need to move beyond the closed permit so that there is some level of right for the person, if they are in an abusive, unfair relationship of work, to find other work.