Mr. Speaker, it is becoming increasingly difficult to believe the minister.
His reform of the temporary foreign worker program is supposed to address the serious labour shortages in Canada. However, he seems incapable of getting any reliable data on the labour market from his department. Employers are saying that the statistics on the number of temporary foreign workers in this country do not reflect the reality.
How can we believe that the minister will get the temporary foreign worker program back on track when he cannot even tell us what is really going on?