I have spoken with migrant workers who have been subject to this abuse. They feel that they can't speak up.
By the way, for some people, the abuse was so extensive that they couldn't stay in that employment anymore. Then they go to apply for open work permit and guess what. IRCC tells them they're not qualified because they left their employment.
We're saying to the migrant workers to stay there and continue to be abused while we process and investigate whether or not they're really being abused.
You can understand how impossible that is. If they lose that employment, people are without any resources. They are here alone. What are they supposed to do?
The current programs, no matter what the fix is, have not worked so far. We have been talking about this for decades now. I've been here for eight years. Prior to this, studies were done. Now you're saying that the government is looking at it again. How many decades does a person have to wait for the government to do the right thing?
I'm simply saying to the government that the time to act is now. It's not time to say that we'll this study some more because we have done this over and over again at different committees through different decades.