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Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely, and successfully be a part of it while they're here, and what does that look like.

April 16th, 2008Committee meeting

Carol Logan

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, absolutely. We're hand-picking these people. We're interviewing. We're bringing those who want to come, and then based on their experience here, we are saying, “Okay, is this someone who's going to add to our economy, our society, or not?” Then you can say, “Yes”, and then r

April 16th, 2008Committee meeting

Carol Logan

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's correct. It's $10.35, and that number comes from Service Canada.

April 16th, 2008Committee meeting

Carol Logan

April 16th, 2008Committee meeting

Carol Logan

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, this is one of the routes. First of all, with regard to their English, we're setting them up, and we're providing them with English training; they do have some English. They have experience in their industries. All three we currently have working with us have experience in

April 16th, 2008Committee meeting

Carol Logan

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Under the industry standard, in order to get an approval from Service Canada, we need to pay them $10.35. That is the industry average. We pay more than that here at the Prince George Hotel, but the industry standard is $10.35 for a housekeeping room attendant.

April 16th, 2008Committee meeting

Carol Logan

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As long as it's minimum wage. But in order to get an approval—

April 16th, 2008Committee meeting

Carol Logan

April 16th, 2008Committee meeting

Carol Logan

April 16th, 2008Committee meeting

Carol Logan

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's right, they could pay $6.50. But in order to get a labour market opinion approval from Service Canada to recruit temporary foreign workers, this is the average wage. You cannot pay below this wage. They give us the wage based on the information that's provided by business.

April 16th, 2008Committee meeting

Carol Logan

Citizenship and Immigration committee  For a temporary foreign worker, absolutely, that's correct.

April 16th, 2008Committee meeting

Carol Logan

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It would be different, based on position.

April 16th, 2008Committee meeting

Carol Logan

Citizenship and Immigration committee  For housekeeping here in Nova Scotia.

April 16th, 2008Committee meeting

Carol Logan

April 16th, 2008Committee meeting

Carol Logan

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't want to say no, because we hired three people. We're not recruiting lots of people in our housekeeping department. We have about 60 employees, and of that, we recruited three people whom we know we're going to have for a period of two years. To us, two years is a long tim

April 16th, 2008Committee meeting

Carol Logan