International Trade committee  In the provincial apprenticeship system, it is not. There's an Atlantic harmonization of the trades. I think an expansion of that within Canada would increase the ability.... As various members have mentioned, they have some low pockets of unemployment where people aren't going t

International Trade committee  If you look under chapter 12, I think you're referring to section A, Business Visitors. Is that correct?

International Trade committee  Under section C would be Intra-Corporate Transferees, but also the next one, which would cover workers, would be under section D, Professionals and Technicians.

International Trade committee  We can add to that. We spoke to our electrical contractors, both at the provincial level and at the national level, and they were quite concerned about that, not only from our workers' standpoint but with regard to their process of running a business, and that was from small co

International Trade committee  Absolutely. Someone mentioned GDP earlier. The construction industry is 14% of Canada's GDP on a consistent basis. We have not seen any studies, nor have we commissioned any on our end either, on what impact that would have. The answer is, as Chris mentioned, we don't know—it has

International Trade committee  Anyone around the table, especially as elected officials, if an electrician or a carpenter or a pipefitter or a welder were sitting at home on employment insurance or was out of a job and looking for work, and there were foreign workers coming in through the TPP, not even through

International Trade committee  I'm not saying that at all. Under the TPP, what could happen is they'd have carte blanche to come over. They have a licence in that country; they'd come over. There's no meeting our codes or making sure they get to our codes or training.

International Trade committee  If I may, I would say that our standards are very high, but they wouldn't shut them down in a heartbeat. I've seen it. I've worked on the tools. I've worked on job sites where it's gone on—

International Trade committee  I mentioned one earlier in my remarks, but yes.

International Trade committee  I think Mr. Benson and Mr. Smillie covered most of the points. It's the first time we've seen a trade deal where we've had to deal with labour mobility between those countries. We've looked for labour mobility between Canada and the U.S., and we haven't been able to get that, eve

International Trade committee  That's correct.

International Trade committee  On the environmental side, I'm not aware of the clause. I've focused specifically on labour, so I can't touch on the environmental side. Obviously, raising standards for labour workers across the globe is important to us. At the same time, I think we look at the standards we try

International Trade committee  There is a Canadian electrical code which supersedes everything. That is the standard across Canada. There is a Canadian electrical code that will identify it, and it's the same with the Canadian building code.

International Trade committee  Very minor, but yes.

International Trade committee  In terms of skill sets, the Canadian Welding Bureau, for instance, has testing modules across the world. As Chris mentioned, if they want to bring welders in, there are different testing booths they can do around the world. I don't know if that would be the same, but it's not jus