Thank you.
I'd like to focus on labour mobility, and specifically the impacts of chapters 12 and 19 on Canada's building trades. There are some really serious concerns about the lack of language requirements. In fact, they've said there are no language requirements under CPTPP, meaning that workers who are on work sites here won't understand signals, safety language, things that are critical to health and safety on any job site.
In chapter 12, it also states that workers wanting to enter Canada must have a post-secondary degree of four years or more of study, but under the CPTPP there's nothing that validates that the training that this person has received meets any provincial standards.
My question is, do CBSA officials have the capacity to be able to check to ensure that these workers will meet our provincial standards?