Thank you.
Mr. Lemire, you are right in saying that LMIAs duplicate paperwork in many cases. Each year, the Commission des partenaires du marché du travail, the entire group that you mentioned, publishes the trades and professions that are in deficit or surplus. In our opinion, it would make perfect sense for a mechanism to be triggered as soon as a profession has a deficit. That way, we would not need to justify the fact that we are looking for people or show that we posted the job for so many weeks.
There is already a measure in Quebec, accelerated processing, through which LMIAs can be bypassed. This measure should be applied to a much larger number of professions, precisely because employers, unions and governments agree on the professions that are in deficit—the latest figures put them at 234. Accordingly, for those professions, we would not need to justify the use of foreign workers.