Citizenship and Immigration committee  We are stating some facts. What we are stating about the temporary foreign workers are facts. We don't make them up.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would say that's a failure of our own policy, as a government.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, I simply make the point that bringing people as temporary foreign workers does not give them the security—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, I don't know how it would be. They will still have to come on a temporary basis. Their visas are contingent on the fact that if we choose to revoke them, they have to leave.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  What happens if the engineering company that the person is coming to decides it no longer needs engineers? What do we do with the engineer then?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If we are going to argue hypothetically, I think our point is that most immigrants who have come with their skills to our country have adapted, despite the fact that we made a commitment that they were going to work in their fields. They have learned new skills, and they have act

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, the person who could have a job, obviously.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Quite possible.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think you're right in your assessment. Our assessment is exactly the same, as the proposed changes certainly make us worried that the humanitarian provisions the minister currently has in her authority will be very much diminished under these proposed amendments. That's worryin

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I've been making the argument for the longest time that what Canada needs is more immigrants. That's the way to build a country. It's also a way to develop your economy. In the old days, if you were lucky, you got a job and you might spend 20 or 35 years in that workplace. If y

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The answer is no.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think temporary foreign workers are in a more precarious situation. Their vulnerability is acknowledged by the employers and by the labour contractors who bring them here. If you come here as a permanent resident, you know you have certainty and cannot be deported because of an

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We would argue that most of the skill shortages claimed by employers don't exist. Some of them do, a very small number. In a large number of categories that employers are claiming have a shortage, there's no real shortage. One point I wanted to make concerning Madam Chow's point

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think that's a question best put to the employers. I don't know what their demands are, and they change by the moment. But the temporary foreign workers program has grown more than anyone would have believed, because it was never intended to do what it's doing. Will these chang

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Here are a couple of quick points.The evidence you are stating regarding the provinces' requests for temporary foreign workers raises, fundamentally, a more serious question about what we're not doing in our country in training individuals to meet the skills needs of the economy.