My comments, of course, are my own. They're just reflective of the experience that I had with that program within private industry, in the processing industry. The company that I worked with previously had around 120 employees, of whom 15 were temporary foreign workers. The reason we had 15 temporary foreign workers is that I had put out a call for 20 vacancies, and we followed the labour market impact assessment rules. We were doing that advertising not to access the program, but to get local labour. At the end of our collection period, we had 157 resumés for 20 jobs, all from within the catchment area. But when I called each of those people to come for an interview, fewer than 50% of them were willing to come for an interview. Under the last round of changes to the program, if people were within an hour's drive, they had to apply for the job regardless of whether they had the intention of filling it. But a person's not going to travel for an hour for a $12- or $14-an-hour job, which these happened to be. They were labour jobs in a production environment. Of those people I called in for an interview, I think there were 57 who accepted and came in. Of those, we brought 17 back for a second interview with my superior, and we ended up hiring five. I filled the other 15 with temporary foreign workers, because there just wasn't the labour pool there to support the jobs.
If I had looked at just the raw data, it would have indicated that there was more than enough labour in the area to fill those vacancies. The question was whether or not all of the people who qualified to do that job were willing to do it.