I don't disagree with that.
This is a democracy. It's driven from the grassroots up. But I can count the number of calls I've had on the national pharmacare program on one hand, so it's not 91%. I could solicit my friends here too, and they would probably say the same thing.
Anyway, that aside, Mr. McGowan, thank you for your presentation.
I don't disagree with a lot of what you're saying about the temporary foreign worker program. The problem is that there are three different streams, and you're sort of intermingling a bunch of them.
On the the low-skilled work, absolutely, there's a lesser wage paid, and so on, because they are filling a niche. However, they are very temporary.
As for the skilled trades and high-tech work, where they bring in someone to set up a computer program because they are skilled at it, and go back as part of that company....
On the skilled trades, the other stream, everything is still in place. The company bringing in a person has to prove that they tried to buy Canadian work first. They have to pay the prevailing rate. They also have to pay the air freight, or whatever it costs to bring the person in, and have a ticket to go back out again. They supply housing, health care, and all of that. It actually costs more to bring in a skilled temporary foreign worker than it does to hire a Canadian, if you can find them.
As far as my opinion—and I really look forward to looking at your legal synopsis—I haven't seen anything in TPP that says Canada doesn't still have the right to adjudicate that stream of workers, which is really what the TPP is about.