Thank you, Chair.
Thanks to all of you for the briefing this morning.
With regard to the labour shortages—which are desperate in some situations in rural and northern Canada—given the various pilot programs that we now know are in development, the single biggest challenge would still seem to be the retention of those recruited for remote or northern locations, both in the professions and in semi-skilled jobs in agriculture, whether in the temporary foreign worker program or in the permanent resident program.
What policy considerations are now in the works?
There have been suggestions that there be much more significant conditions applied to those being accepted to require them to stay in those locations for a period of up to two years.
Are those policy considerations in the works now?