Finance committee  When you refer to undocumented workers, are you talking about unqualified and unskilled workers working within the industry, or are you talking about foreign workers coming into Canada?

Finance committee  In Ontario right now there is a push on with the Ontario government, in the Ministry of Labour, looking into that situation and making sure people have the proper skills and credentials. I think there's an enormous number of unemployed qualified, skilled Canadians currently who cannot for fiscal reasons travel outside of their home location to go to work, because there's no incentive for them.

Finance committee  Yes. Running through the numbers that should be in the brief we put together, it would be a net benefit, based on soft numbers of $95 million to the public purse.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman and committee members. I appreciate the opportunity to speak before you today. To try to be consistent with the pre-budget theme the government has mandated to ensure we have the needed skills in Canada and to make certain that our tax regimes allow us to attract workers, I want to talk a little bit about an amendment to the Income Tax Act for construction workers with regard to travel and room and board.