Human Resources committee  If it becomes common practice, absolutely. If there's a blatant violation, there are tools in place, and we are putting in place additional tools to make sure there are no abuses of the programs. Nobody wants that kind of abuse of the program.

Human Resources committee  I think the AG report certainly identified areas of improvement, as is very common when the AG does a review. I think the government has responded directly in a number of ways to those recommendations and—

Human Resources committee  Absolutely. We've got a whole range of them. I pointed out some of the changes that were made in 2011 and in 2012, and the announcements that have been made, but there's a whole range of them. David, did you want to run through some of those?

Human Resources committee  I think it will take us until after the meeting to get the numbers. Let me say that I would disagree with you that it's a common problem, but there are isolated incidents. I would add that as part of the connecting Canadians with available jobs strategy, one of the things the go

Human Resources committee  The specific requirements of the transition plan are still being developed, but absolutely it's not going to be a one-size-fits-all; there's going to have to be a recognition that in some cases it will take a long time to develop the domestic labour supply for that. As we know,

Human Resources committee  We perfectly agree with the statement that you want to make the jobs available to Canadian workers first, and that's—

Human Resources committee  Thank you for that question. As I said before, this is a part of a larger framework of measures to support that Canadian economy. When we look at the temporary foreign worker program, we don't look at it in isolation. We look at it as part of a larger package to try to make the

Human Resources committee  Sure. Let me say that revoking the permit or suspending the labour market opinion process is a tool of last resort. What we'd like to do is signal to employers exactly what the rules are and to make sure they understand what is a legitimate use of the program, and when there are

Human Resources committee  Yes, thank you.

Human Resources committee  Thank you. The legislation only refers to the user fee exemption. It in itself doesn't address the structure of the user fee, how much it will be, whether it's one fee, or all the associated rules, so when the regulations come out, they will provide all the details, including, I

Human Resources committee  The idea for a user fee is that we would be leveraging a user fee that reflects the true cost, all the costs associated with running the program with all the integrity and protection measures that are in place. In that respect, there'll be a matching. As part of establishing the

Human Resources committee  Thank you for that question. The TFW program is a large program in the sense that we're getting a lot of applications, and a lot of employers are using it. I think around 46,000 employers used it last year. We're getting a lot of applications. The vast majority of those are empl

Human Resources committee  This is an ongoing effort to reduce these abuses. The government has implemented a series of changes. In my opening remarks, I went through a list of what has been going on. Since I've been working at HRSDC, there've been ongoing changes in the program to try to enhance the integ

Human Resources committee  Well, you asked a series of questions, and then you moved on and were talking about the accelerated labour market opinion program. I will say that it is not correct that this is a rubber-stamp process. The accelerated labour market opinion was a more efficient way to process. It

Human Resources committee  Yes. Let me just add a few more things. Sorry, but I was speaking a little fast so that I could get in the full answer. It's true that it was a faster way to process, but the rigour is certainly there. It's just different. It works through an attestation model, much like how we