Thank you, Mr. Chair.
In my riding, if a government promised jobs in an election campaign, it wouldn't be very credible. Our need isn't so much to create jobs as to have employees in our businesses to make our economy run.
With that said, I now want to talk about the Employment and Social Development Canada news release published on April 4, 2022.
In the Workforce Solutions Road Map, part of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, the government announces that it wants to respond to labour shortages in Canada. It says that the government “will carefully monitor implementation and continually review the policies to ensure they are addressing real labour shortages without displacing Canadian workers.”
Mr. Bates, what is a false labour shortage, in this context?