Mr. Speaker, the Ontario Construction Secretariat is jointly funded by the construction industry, the province of Ontario and the Government of Canada, HRDC. The parliamentary secretary will know that undocumented workers in the construction industry, particularly in Ontario, is a very big problem. Indeed, it has been computed that the cost to governments, both provincial and federal, is about $1.3 billion a year as a consequence of these undocumented or illegal workers within the construction industry.
For those areas within the economy which have known abuses and links directly to money laundering and under the table or underground economy activity, could the parliamentary secretary assure the House that attention will be appropriately spent in these areas under the bill, or at least under existing legislation?