Finance committee  I do focus primarily on P.E.I., and there are other people who work on this across the country. I didn't come prepared with that number today, and I don't have a head for numbers.

Finance committee  In P.E.I. it has reduced drastically since the 2014 changes. We get the numbers only the year after. In 2015, it was around 700. The year before that it was 1,000. The year before that it was 1,200. Before that, it was generally a pretty steady climb, with the exception of one ye

Finance committee  In Prince Edward Island, it would be only the workers in full-time year-round jobs. That would exclude all of the fishery industry, with the exception of a couple of mussel plants. Since Prince Edward Island can no longer hire migrant workers in stores or restaurants, those folks

Finance committee  Prince Edward Island has a critical worker stream in our provincial nominee program that has allowed workers who don't necessarily have really high fields—though many of them do, but they're just not working in high field positions—and they don't have a great deal of money to inv

Finance committee  The focus of the movement across Canada around migrant worker rights is really to secure status for these workers that would entitle them to those programs. My understanding of the reason why this is done is the way the temporary foreign worker program was implemented. When they

Finance committee  As it stands, our immigration system is such that the people who are coming in through the temporary foreign worker program are not eligible to come through the federal immigration programs, so the ask is that these people coming to work are able to apply for permanent residency

Finance committee  For the past six years, Cooper Institute has also been working on issues of migrant workers in Prince Edward Island. We are engaged in this issue on a national level as well, through work with the Canadian Council for Refugees, the National Farmers Union, and the Coalition for Mi