Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all. It's interesting testimony.
My first question will be to Mrs. Annesley.
Certainly, we do have high employment in Alberta. We also have the highest percentage of temporary foreign workers. There have been a number of issues in British Columbia and Alberta about the way this program is being delivered.
At the request of the ironworkers, I met with them several times last week in my riding. They shared with me the correspondence between the ironworkers and one of the major brokerage companies that bring in the temporary foreign workers.
In the case of Imperial Oil's Kearl project, it is now well known that close to 80 ironworkers were laid off and replaced with Croatian temporary foreign workers who, based on the correspondence by the broker, were less trained, and I presume, paid less.
Among the laid-off workers were first nations, who presumably were employed in accordance with benefit agreements. Only one third of those workers were rehired on the site, and most of them lost their equipment.
My question to you is about the brokers for temporary foreign workers. Are they paid when they bring the workers into Canada, or are they paid when they displace the Canadian workers?