Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We're different. We're not an employer, but we work with many companies in the oil and gas industry, mainly in construction. The types of people we're recruiting are skilled trades. The process we go through is governed by the Government of Alberta--the Alberta apprenticeship and

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's great. Yes. She is fantastic. We recently had a group of workers—this is just an example—who were brought over and only worked a short period of time; they were promised long-term work under their work permit, but they were left literally out in the cold. When it was min

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You are asking that if they become landed immigrants we would become more profitable? I don't understand.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Not at all, no. I think we would prefer that. The reality is that a lot of these workers don't want to come here on a permanent basis. They've made it very clear to us that they're here to work, they're here to make money. I can only speak for construction. I can't speak for ma

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I have a comment on that very good question. Certainly you can't control everybody. You can't control everything that they're thinking and their motives for bringing in workers. We see it; we see it all the time. Workers are brought here, and they pay big fees. They will pay th

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We are compensated by them.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We haven't seen that. The companies we work with typically are under CLAC, which is the Christian Labour Association of Canada, and the union. They are all governed under a collective agreement. The wages are fixed, so there is no possibility of paying outside that wage scale.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We don't. Our firm doesn't. We are an Alberta-based company. As I say, we've heard of these companies, and they are sneaking into the construction industry. Typically they've been known in the unskilled sector. Meat packing is probably one area, and it's been in the news--worke

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think it would be an option for sure, if it came up, if it eliminated unscrupulous recruiters and unscrupulous acts. We don't have an association in Alberta that governs the recruitment industry. We have the Government of Alberta that governs the recruitment industry. Because

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm sorry, if they're not given a visa...?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We have run into that. The timing of that question is good. We were just in one of the embassies with a large construction company asking about that, because certainly if a worker doesn't get a visa and they've been through the process with the immigration officer and that immigr

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It would because we've been through this process and we've appealed it ourselves. We're not immigration lawyers, nor do we have a lawyer on staff. That is by choice. We deal with a law firm in Edmonton that deals with matters, and the companies we work with have their own lawye