It's interesting. Under the temporary foreign worker program, you have to demonstrate to the bureaucrats that you've gone out and tried to hire a Canadian. You have to show an advertisement to prove that you've actually advertised in the media. The problem we have is that we do not have sufficient numbers of people, particularly in the resort areas.
We don't have a major problem here, for example, in Ottawa, or in Toronto or Vancouver. Yes, there is a little bit of a problem, but where is the biggest problem? You can go to Mont Tremblant, for example, or the Muskokas, or the Jasper/Lake Louise/Banff area, or Whistler. In those places you've got 4,000 or 5,000 hotel bedrooms, and how many people live in Saint Jovite? There aren't very many; it's maybe 3,000 or 4,000 people. The Fairmont hotel group literally buses people in every day from Montreal. They drive up the Laurentian Autoroute to bring housekeepers to make up rooms at the Fairmont Tremblant.
We would be delighted to be able to have Canadians doing these jobs, and it's not a matter of benefits or salaries or all of those things; there just aren't the numbers. We opened a JW Marriott resort in Muskoka last spring, but we had to keep two floors closed. Why? Because we didn't have people to make up the rooms. We don't have sufficient numbers of people in the right places at any given time, Monsieur Vincent. That's what it comes down to, and it's going to get worse again.
Is it Mexicans? I was talking to a chap today out at Lake Louise. When I mentioned to him that he seemed to have a lot of people from the Philippines there, he said that in fact they were doing very well right now with people from Brazil. So what part of the world it is doesn't really matter; we just need to be able to keep the service levels up.
Michele McKenzie is talking about the experience here in Canada. Well, if we don't have the people to be able to take care of the rooms, we have a big problem.