Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. That's perfect.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If I can pick up on something you said, I want to maybe give you a little bit more information on that. When I talked about Stephen King and he talked about going to Australia, it was six months. I didn't say that, but it was six months. I just thought I couldn't say that, because it didn't sound real—six months.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There's no question that's part of the issue, but we're also seeing people come back now, and we're seeing them come back like we've never seen them before. And that's a good thing. But you're right, for many decades a lot of the people who grew up in Saskatchewan went to Alberta or B.C., some to Toronto, some to other places.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Exactly.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  First of all, it is critical that people are protected under the exact same laws as we have for everyone else. I don't think you can have one law that protects Canadian workers and another law that protects other workers in the same country. We can't have a system like that whatsoever.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm from there too.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I grew up in Toronto.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much. I'm not going to pretend to know what the point system is, because I don't really know what it is, but I'll speak to what I think the issue is--namely, that many people who come to this country have credentials that aren't being recognized and that need to be recognized.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I agree.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. Thank you very much for the opportunity to be here. I'm going to be about as candid as I can possibly be on this issue. I think it's critically important. The number one issue in the business community today in Regina is the shortage of labour. There is no other issue that's even remotely close to this issue.