George Chahal at the Transport, Infrastructure and Communities Committee

On October 17th, 2022. See this statement in context.

October 17th, 2022 / 4:45 p.m.

Liberal

George Chahal Liberal Calgary Skyview, AB

Thank you, Chair.

Thank you to everybody new to the committee. I look forward to working with you.

Thank you to everyone for your testimony today.

I'm going to start with questions regarding immigration and with what we are doing as a federal government, focusing on what we're not doing in immigration to address labour shortages in the transportation sector. I want to start with that first.

We need to bring new workers in. One of my colleagues made the comment that 27% of new truckers are from newcomer communities. I want to start with that. Is the data point accurate? What can we do to help get more workers?

I will start with you, Ms. Splinter.

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