Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's an honour and a privilege to be here in front of your committee. A special shout-out to my own MP, MP Arseneault, as well as our New Brunswick MP, Alaina Lockhart, and also to my colleague from P.E.I., Minister Gallant. Our government is working on so

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think it's a collective effort; everybody has a role to play. I think this is what is going to make this pilot project work, and we're going to see some success. I know we in New Brunswick work tremendously hard to engage employers. We heard it throughout part of the conversati

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As my ADM has just said, there is an agreement within the four provinces that if such a case happens, we can switch some of those numbers up so we can go and attract those people. I wish all of my colleagues the greatest success in reaching their numbers. It can happen.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't think I want to...maybe you can elaborate more on what punitive policies you're talking about.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would say that one thing we've seen in New Brunswick over the last several years is that they put all their eggs in one basket. I believe that New Brunswick has much more to offer and when you put all your eggs in one basket, you forget some other sectors are just as important.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  When we talk about—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I did not say that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  What I'm saying is that when we—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  What I'm saying is that over a number of years now the business community in New Brunswick is saying their number one challenge is the lack of a skilled workforce. And that's why we've talked about how we have to look at immigration as one those areas that can help New Brunswick.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, I think you're saying that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Currently you cannot work in fracking in New Brunswick.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There is a moratorium that was approved by the majority of New Brunswickers.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, look, I would not go to the statement you make that there's no industry in New Brunswick, just like the comment in the previous panel saying there are no jobs in New Brunswick. I think we've made it very clear. If you go on NBjobs, you'll have over 3,500 jobs on any given

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Again, you make it seem like there are no opportunities for employment in New Brunswick.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  When you look at New Brunswick, we do have a strong energy sector as well. We have a nuclear power plant. We have Coleson Cove, in the Saint John area.