Finance committee  Yes. Maybe those people need some more training to fill those vacancies. They won't invest in training only to earn a low wage.

Finance committee  One of the short-term options is to increase Statistics Canada's budget so that it can carry out more in-depth surveys of labour market needs and other surveys as well. Such surveys would include questions about the ability of businesses to find people to fill vacancies.

Finance committee  My analysis covered the implementation of the pilot program in Alberta and British Columbia. The program reduced the processing time for approvals from five months to five days. For businesses, that drastically reduced the waiting time for access to foreign workers and the cost.

Finance committee  Yes, that's exactly right. It's because there are no incentives to raise wages to attract local workers. That is also why, in my C. D. Howe Institute report, I just mentioned one option. Another would be to impose very high hiring fees for temporary foreign workers, which is wha

Finance committee  Thank you for your question. If we think about the European countries that have a long history with the temporary foreign worker program—Germany and Switzerland—they both have a characteristic: that is, they have local federal labour agencies that handle the matching between va

Finance committee  Yes, that's because the difference is basically that Canada is traditionally a settlement country, so it's people who desire to come and live in Canada and bring in their skills.... The temporary foreign worker program is a program that exists through the demand for labour, so it

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and committee members. My presentation is about establishing monetary penalties for the temporary foreign worker program by amending the clause in the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. The regulations must be followed, and it is expected that penalt