The one thing I would suggest is enabling people who are here at the end of their work permit now. There's a number of them in Alberta who have approached me, because there's just not the level of work there that there used to be. Restaurants are struggling because of some other factors that are going on in Alberta; minimum wage. Restaurants are closing. These people are here, and they cannot get a work permit in Canada. Typically, if it was someone who was on an LMIA, I could send them to a border crossing and they could get a new work permit. That can't happen under the Atlantic pilot program. The people who are already here and started to be partially integrated who want to come and accelerate the Atlantic pilot program can't do it. They have to go back to their country of origin.
On October 17th, 2017. See this statement in context.