If it were a completely open work permit, I guess those protections would be lost. Currently, you can get audited. There are audits that happen routinely, and you're not notified of them. They can just show up at any given time, and you need to be able to provide all the documents and everything else to ensure workers' protections are being met. Now, if you went to an open work permit, all of that would potentially be lost.
On November 28th, 2023. See this statement in context.