Thank you, Chair.
On page 7, in paragraph 5.38 of the Auditor General's report:
Departmental policy required that, for low-wage positions, employers should demonstrate that they had tried to recruit from under-represented groups. In the files we reviewed where this requirement applied, 65 percent of employers did not make adequate efforts to appeal to under-represented groups. Nevertheless, the Department approved most of these applications. For example, program officers approved applications for temporary foreign workers in some fish and seafood processing plants located near First Nations communities, even when efforts to recruit from those communities were not found on file.
Sixty-five per cent didn't make the effort. In many cases, a first nations community was nearby, yet your department still granted the applications. Please explain.