Citizenship and Immigration committee  I just want to reinforce what Dave was saying, because we shouldn't confuse skill shortages with labour shortages. They are two different things and we should understand that. We have skill shortages for quite a number of different reasons, one being that we haven't done a very g

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Could I just add to that? I think besides the issues around the expansion being too fast and that we can't therefore get enough people in place to do the monitoring and the accountability—which have been to the wayside—the other thing that has happened is that we have different

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think he made it clear on both of these points from both of you that from the federation's point of view, we should be putting a moratorium on this temporary foreign worker program until there's been a substantial review. Hopefully your committee will be able to help with that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I guess you're doing questions at the end?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I, too, would like to thank the committee for the opportunity to present. I'm representing the Newfoundland and Labrador Federation of Labour. We're an umbrella organization for 30 affiliate unions in the province, representing about 500 locals and 70,000 working women and men th