The main premise of this motion was to get support for getting the CEOs here. We haven't heard from them and we haven't had any reaction. The union is saying it's not heard back from the CEOs on any level.
We've had the minister here. When we have discussions about getting the minister here for other items...we can't ask the minister about those items when the minister's here.
This is primarily to get the CEOs here, in front of the committee. The province can probably talk about the process and what's happened on its end in terms of trying to work with these companies. It's going to see this as an investment. I'm sure it's also going to work on behalf of the unions, so I don't see it as being detrimental to this.
The premise of this was to have the CEOs here. They're the companies that promised that Canadian workers would get Canadian jobs, and they're not.
I'm indifferent to the amendment, but it's not the focus we wanted. We want to focus on the companies that need to answer why, when they are receiving hard-earned tax dollars, they are not putting those hard-earned tax dollars to work for Canadian jobs instead of foreign jobs.