Citizenship and Immigration committee  While I fully agree with your comments about health and safety and other issues, I will tell you what our experience has been. Our experience has been the opposite. When we have had problems with labour standards, we have called the province. The province says it's a federal juri

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, I agree with you 100%. We have asked for a workers' bill of rights, and hopefully when a bill of rights comes forward that ensures labour standards, safety, and other issues—housing, and so on—workers who are coming to this country, who are needed to sustain this economy, wi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much for the question. When there were two workers who died under very mysterious circumstances, we felt, as members of a community, that there was some probability of a relationship between the work they were doing and their deaths, although we have, at this poi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I'd just like to make a quick comment. First of all, one of the big headline stories in Leamington over the last year and a half or so was the fact that two migrant workers under the seasonal agricultural worker program were sent home and repatria

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, thank you very much for your firm intervention in getting the committee moving again--I hope. I just want to speak for a moment about Mr. Cadotte and myself. We are both retired from the manufacturing sector and have worked a little with some of the migrant workers in