Citizenship and Immigration committee  The wage would be higher for chefs and line cooks, obviously. It's a different level of experience that's required.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, you have to pay the same rate that you would pay anybody else you're hiring. You can't go below that rate.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Correct.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Ideally we would want the landed immigrant. The reality is that our sector is one of the fastest growing, and we do not have enough people to work in the industry here. Even with the aboriginal community, which is the only youth community that is growing, we still do not have eno

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I apologize ahead of time for my voice; it gives in and out, so bear with me. I'm here this morning representing the Nova Scotia Tourism Human Resource Council and the Tourism Industry Association of Nova Scotia. I'd just like to take a minute to tell you a bit about the organiz