Public Accounts committee  I'm going to ask my colleague, Mr. Kenyon, to respond to that, please.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you very much to you, Mr. Chair, and to members of the committee for your thoughtful questions today. As I think you can tell, we're trying to take a number of steps across a range of areas to improve these programs, working in partnership both with our federal colleagues

Public Accounts committee  Perhaps I can try to respond, Mr. Chair. Rather than reinventing the wheel--to use the language the member used--I think what we've tried to describe, or what I've tried to describe and perhaps have not done a very good job of, is that in fact it's been a series of efforts as o

Public Accounts committee  I'll start. I guess I have two parts in my response to the points you're making, sir. One deals with information on the necessary qualifications that we need to provide to the individuals who want to come to Canada. With the launch of the Foreign Credentials Referral Office, ho

Public Accounts committee  I can start, Mr. Chair. I'll talk about the employer responsibilities. I believe you're talking about the seasonal agricultural worker program element of the temporary foreign worker program overall.

Public Accounts committee  Under the seasonal agricultural worker, which is, as I said, a component of the overall program, there are specific employer obligations. For example, an employer is expected to pay the temporary foreign worker's round trip transportation cost, including airfare and ground transp

Public Accounts committee  As I said in my comments, we are responsible for relations with employers. Maybe I can add to what Mr. Yeates commented on earlier in terms of some of the changes with respect to the live-in caregiver program. One of the things we've also introduced at the front end of the proc

Public Accounts committee  I'm sorry, I don't have the breakdown of which categories of temporary foreign worker are aligned with the compliance reviews. I can go back and try to get that information for you, Madame.

Public Accounts committee  It's an interesting question. I presume you mean our relationship with the provinces and territories in this area.

Public Accounts committee  We have a table called the Forum of Labour Market Ministers, which is supported by a deputies' table and a senior officials' table. It's the table where we talk about labour market challenges. As you can imagine, the last year or so has been dominated by a discussion on how the p

Public Accounts committee  It will strengthen and clarify our capacity to assess the genuineness of the job offers. As I said, we've already taken steps to do this, and this will further strengthen our authority.

Public Accounts committee  As I said, in the employer compliance reviews we've done, we have found that 11 employers were not compliant. I don't have the statistics with me on the exact nature of the non-compliance. I'd be happy to get back to the committee.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Lee. I'll speak about two particular initiatives. Following a pilot initiative, we implemented our monitoring initiative where we work with employers to do the follow-up to ensure that they comply with all of the conditions associated with the issuance of a labour

Public Accounts committee  The employer compliance reviews will actually get at finding that there isn't in fact a genuine job offer. That takes me to the second part of our initiative. I think both Mr. Yeates and I mentioned that our departments have been working together on a series of regulatory amend

Public Accounts committee  Good morning, and thank you, Mr. Chair and committee members. As the chair said, my name is Janice Charette. I'm the Deputy Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development Canada. I'm joined this morning by Andrew Kenyon, who is the director general of our temporary foreign w