Mr. Speaker, summer is right around the corner, and with it come seasonal jobs.
Two businesses in my riding, Groupe Ferti and Émondage Pouliot, are already on the verge of losing valuable contracts because of a labour shortage. Their files have been gathering dust at the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada office for quite a while. Time is running out and the deadlines are getting tighter.
The immigration minister has announced that the processing of files will be improved in the coming years, but what is being done for right now?
Are we telling those businesses to cancel the contracts, to go back on their word? Is that really the message the minister wants to send?