Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely, and successfully be a part of it while they're here, and what does that look like.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's correct. It's $10.35, and that number comes from Service Canada.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, absolutely. We're hand-picking these people. We're interviewing. We're bringing those who want to come, and then based on their experience here, we are saying, “Okay, is this someone who's going to add to our economy, our society, or not?” Then you can say, “Yes”, and then really represent them well, or you can say, “Well, actually, you know, no, it was bumpy.”

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  For a temporary foreign worker, absolutely, that's correct.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It would be different, based on position.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, this is one of the routes. First of all, with regard to their English, we're setting them up, and we're providing them with English training; they do have some English. They have experience in their industries. All three we currently have working with us have experience in the hotel customer service base, so they're coming with that experience.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There is no way.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Under the industry standard, in order to get an approval from Service Canada, we need to pay them $10.35. That is the industry average. We pay more than that here at the Prince George Hotel, but the industry standard is $10.35 for a housekeeping room attendant.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As long as it's minimum wage. But in order to get an approval—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's right, they could pay $6.50. But in order to get a labour market opinion approval from Service Canada to recruit temporary foreign workers, this is the average wage. You cannot pay below this wage. They give us the wage based on the information that's provided by business.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  For housekeeping here in Nova Scotia.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's about two weeks.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely, it was by chance. Here, we're struggling; we're trying to find applicants. Let's investigate, let's see how this goes, and let's find out more about it.