We have a table called the Forum of Labour Market Ministers, which is supported by a deputies' table and a senior officials' table. It's the table where we talk about labour market challenges. As you can imagine, the last year or so has been dominated by a discussion on how the provincial, territorial, and federal governments are reacting to deal with the impact of the recession and the downturn on the Canadian labour market.
We had a discussion prior to that on the impact of the immigration program as a supplement to the domestic labour market. In fact, one of the pieces of work that deputy ministers asked to be done is a joint meeting of the immigration federal-provincial table and the labour market table. I hesitate to guess the time, but it occurred about 18 months ago. It was last November, about 18 months or so ago.
At that time, we were trying to sort it out, because there are two different tables. We look at the labour market and our immigration colleagues look at the immigration side. Throughout the federal-provincial dialogue, we wanted to make sure we were looking at the issues in a consistent and coherent way and there wasn't anything falling between the two sides. I think we found the discussion to be very useful, very productive, and very constructive, and it continues.
I suspect that as we see the recovery occur and there's again an emergence of pressure to increase temporary foreign workers in some parts of the country, the conversation will come back to the labour market table.