Economic Action Plan 2013 Act, No. 1   that these fees would not be passed on to the temporary foreign workers themselves and there is no measure anywhere cited to ensure that they would not be. The government is now trying to fix problems it created. The last time it tried to fix problems, it allowed employers to pay up to 15

Natural Resources committee   looked at to reverse and go in the other direction. That is an existing pipeline, so it’s an easy way to satisfy that. Number two, the price they're paying today is a world oil market price, which we would all hope to get, but in stranded oil in Canada and the U.S., it's about $15

Human Resources committee   workers are vulnerable and exploited harms not just temporary foreign workers but all members of Canada's domestic labour market. In other words, if temporary foreign workers are treated badly and among other things permitted to be paid up to 15% less than workers in the domestic

Incorporation by Reference in Regulations Act  Mr. Speaker, I want to remind the member that this party did not vote against economic action. I voted against eviscerating environmental legislation. I voted against paying temporary foreign workers 15% less than Canadians. I voted against bringing temporary foreign workers

Finance committee   be doing that now, but we've certainly seen instances where that has happened, and this government recently made a change that allowed temporary foreign workers to be paid 15% less than the prevailing wage. That is a low-wage strategy; it depresses wages for all workers. Recently

Finance committee  Pay them 15% less.

Environment committee  No, compared to the average budget over the last six years, it saw a 15% reduction from those numbers. So the budget today would be 15% less than the average of the previous six years, and I'll have to get back to you on what that average was for the last six years, but my

Agricultural Growth Act   the remainder of it for two years, and they sell it for feed versus what used to be premium quality wheat with great protein, they are now stuck selling it for a heck of a lot less. In fact, today, the prices are running at between 12% to 15% less than they were last fall. Of course

Business of Supply   that the temporary foreign worker program needs to be even more flexible. The government has pushed this logic to the point of allowing companies to pay temporary foreign workers 15% less than Canadian workers. It is therefore not surprising that the number of temporary foreign workers in Canada

Business of Supply   and the ability to pay 15% less to temporary foreign workers than to Canadian workers? Did it use the same bank of data and information to revoke those initial changes that it had put in? Where is the reference to the data?

Business of Supply   were happy paying 15% less to the temporary foreign workers. We need to ensure that this program is not only functional but is credible and clean. We need to ensure that we provide protection for those workers to ensure that they are able to get the same protections Canadian

Business of Supply   that budget 2012 provided for employers to pay temporary foreign workers 15% less for the same jobs and the same work. If that is not downward pressure on wages, then I do not know what is. This caused such an uproar that the Conservatives had to withdraw this measure, which fortunately

Human Resources committee   instituted on a trial basis the flexibility to allow employers to pay 5% less than the median prevailing wage rate in low-skilled occupations, and 15% less than the median prevailing wage rate in high-skilled sectors, if and only if, Canadians in the same job at the same employer were

Business of Supply   that the government has taken the shackles off, is opening it up, and will allow employers to pay 15% less. Then the minister stood the other day and said that all they have done since 2002 is tighten it up. Does my colleague from Papineau agree that it is the inconsistencies--

Business of Supply   for the temporary foreign worker program in accelerating the LMOs and in providing an opportunity for employers to pay 15% less to temporary foreign workers. She was very proud of those. The numbers skyrocketed. As my colleague for Markham—Unionville said, they mushroomed, so