Canadian Heritage committee  Awesome. I'm in my last paragraph. The NIPD is in line with traditionally indigenous communities' celebration of the summer solstice, even as they are steps away from a significantly European Christian-focused holiday. It puts teeth into inclusion, from a national perspective, w

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you so much. Good morning. I thank you for the opportunity to present to this committee. I'm general counsel and director of human rights for UFCW Canada, which is one of Canada's largest private sector unions, representing about a quarter of a million people and their fa

Human Resources committee  I'm glad you asked that question. The difference is that during the road to permanent residency, we have a whole regime of protections around the worker in this environment. It's a unionized environment. If workers are alone, by themselves, with no unions involved, they are ful

Human Resources committee  The tip line, like the enforcement, is nonsensical. From my understanding, the previous government put together a book of blacklisted employers. For years, there were very few names in it. We can't rely on workers to say they're having a problem. We need proactive enforcement.

Human Resources committee  Of course you could. Why couldn't you? We inspect all sorts of things in this country. I think you can do it at the federal level where things are under the federal jurisdiction, but there has to be an honest conversation between the provinces and the federal government as to w

Human Resources committee  It's in our submissions, and some of the other speakers have spoken to this issue as well. If we're going to be a little ingenious—and I don't think it's an ingenious solution—you have sectoral bargaining and you have sectoral work permits as well. I think that starts to answer t

Human Resources committee  In a couple of words, it was a ridiculous response to political imperatives in the previous regime, which felt it was bad for industry, bad for workers, bad for Canada, and bad for the economy.

Human Resources committee  The model that UFCW Canada is setting out works in an unionized setting. The success we've had with Maple Leaf, HyLife, Olymel, Cargill works because even where there's a road to permanent residency, during those two years they're under a collective agreement and they have a unio

Human Resources committee  Fantastic. In closing, I'm going to ask you to review our written submissions, which detail what we see as a progressive immigration system. I also want to thank the federal government for having the courage to take the step of reviewing this desperately broken program. This

Human Resources committee  Good afternoon. Mr. Chair, vice-chairs, and members of the standing committee, thank you for the opportunity to present our views today on behalf of UFCW Canada. We've also provided the standing committee with broader written submissions. My name is Naveen Mehta. I'm general co