Citizenship and Immigration Committee on Nov. 9th, 2023

Evidence of meeting #83 for Citizenship and Immigration in the 44th Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was employers.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Closed Work Permits and Temporary Foreign Workers

MPs speaking

Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe

Also speaking

Elizabeth Kwan Senior Researcher, Canadian Labour Congress

Santiago Escobar National Representative, United Food and Commercial Workers Union Canada, Canadian Labour Congress

Elias Anavisca Migrant Worker, Canadian Labour Congress

Gabriela Ramo Chair, National Immigration Law Section, The Canadian Bar Association

Peggy Brekveld Chair, Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council

Paul Doyon Senior Vice-President General, Union des producteurs agricoles

Clerk of the Committee Mr. Keelan Buck

Denis Roy Responsible for the Temporary Foreign Worker File, Union des producteurs agricoles

5:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Sukh Dhaliwal

Thank you, Madam Kwan.

On behalf of committee members, as chair, I thank the witnesses for their time and contributions.

Madam Brekveld, Mr. Clerk will be in touch with you to appear at some point in time in person or whatever works.

Colleagues, I have one quick administrative matter before we finish. We have prepared a draft budget for this study in the amount of $13,500. Is there a motion to adopt this budget?

5:25 p.m.

An hon. member

I so move.

5:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Sukh Dhaliwal

(Motion agreed to)

The committee will not be meeting next week. When we come back on Tuesday, November 21, we will be continuing the study of closed work permits and temporary foreign workers.

I want to thank the interpreters today for their excellent work.

The meeting is adjourned.