Citizenship and Immigration Committee on Nov. 25th, 2025

[Lysiane van der Knaap]

I can't answer your question for provinces other than Quebec. Since the education system falls under provincial jurisdiction, we don't make observations outside Quebec.

In Quebec, the labour market partners commission identifies labour needs. The document entitled “State of balance in the labour market” provides diagnostics for 516 professions. This document looks at whether the professions have a labour shortage, surplus or balance. This tool, which is updated on a regular basis, makes it easy to decide how much labour these 516 professions need.

For Quebec, the answer to your question is yes.

[The Chair, Liberal, Julie Dzerowicz]

Thank you. That's excellent information. I appreciate it.

Thanks, everyone, for your questions.

Before we finish up, Mr. Menegakis would like to propose something.

[Costas Menegakis, Conservative, Aurora—Oak Ridges—Richmond Hill, ON]

Thank you, Madam Chair.

With the consent of the committee, I would suggest that we consider the evidence we heard today as part of the international student study. All three parties brought up some really good information today. It would be a shame for that to go to waste, so I wonder if we can get consent from everyone here to include the testimony that we heard today as part of the international student study.

[The Chair, Liberal, Julie Dzerowicz]

Do we have agreement?

It looks like it's unanimous.

That's an excellent suggestion, Mr. Menegakis. Thank you.

I want to finish off by saying thanks to the witnesses for the excellent testimony.

I want to thank all of my colleagues for their excellent questions.

We're going to suspend for about five minutes or so to formally say goodbye to our witnesses and then go in camera for committee business.

[Proceedings continue in camera]