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Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's where my family came from as well. It's ready for that here in Canada, but it's not ready for the Ukrainians, it's not ready for the Filipinos, it's not ready for the Africans.

April 2nd, 2008Committee meeting

Chris Thomas

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Oh, it's not that tricky, trust me.

April 2nd, 2008Committee meeting

Chris Thomas

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Another thing we should mention, though, Norman, is that it is the next logical step in the reality of what's coming that candidates like Sandra and her husband are going to be minor in terms of what we're seeing into Canada. We're going to be seeing more people with English as a second language.

April 2nd, 2008Committee meeting

Chris Thomas

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Anything we could do on that side would be great.

April 2nd, 2008Committee meeting

Chris Thomas

April 2nd, 2008Committee meeting

Chris Thomas

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That is kind of a two-pronged question. One of the things, obviously, that would come with it there is that if the individual is coming over for an industry, if the person has been defined as having been working as an engineer for the last 10 years, or working in food service for the last 10 years, he or she should have the ability to work within that industry.

April 2nd, 2008Committee meeting

Chris Thomas

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In Manitoba, though, it's going to have a bit more teeth to it. They're literally going to ask the agencies to post a bond and to be completely responsible for any issues that come up. For Alberta, it's just a matter of registering, and a lot of employers think, that's great, they've been registered.

April 2nd, 2008Committee meeting

Chris Thomas

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The Manitoba government is taking a look right now at a program for licensing all recruiters for that province.

April 2nd, 2008Committee meeting

Chris Thomas

April 2nd, 2008Committee meeting

Chris Thomas

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There's really only one way to do this, and it has to be the legal way. Again, where you see a lot of the issues with this program is that there seem to be a lot of loopholes and a lot of missing pieces of information. You get different programs bleeding over from one to another and people thinking that there's one way to do it.

April 2nd, 2008Committee meeting

Chris Thomas

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Sure, definitely. Thank you all again for inviting us down today. It's greatly appreciated. I'm here today representing our 2,700 locations in Canada, and by their calculations, all the store owners figure that with 2,700 locations, at seven minutes each, we should be here for about 13 and a half days, so I sure hope everybody's prepared for that on this side.

April 2nd, 2008Committee meeting

Chris Thomas