Citizenship and Immigration committee  I will jump in here. As Mr. Banville said, under our collective agreements, our foreign workers have the same rights as any Canadian worker. It's not true that in our collective agreements, positions are segregated according to the National Occupational Classification system as they are in the TFWP.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The process is a significant administrative burden for Olymel. Over the past two and a half years, we have submitted more than 110 LMIA applications and 1,588 certificate applications in Quebec alone. Half of those were renewal applications, so your question is quite relevant, Ms.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  From our standpoint, the biggest challenge isn't really the administrative process. Nonetheless, we would appreciate a streamlined and expedited process for employers and employees, especially when it comes to renewing work permits. That isn't our biggest challenge, though. The problem is really the burden of having to provide proof.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, the temporary workers we are recruiting abroad are mainly French speakers, specifically because that facilitates not only the obtaining of permanent residence, which is one of our objectives, but also the integration of immigrants into the regions. We train employees from beginning to end in our companies through work peers, and it's going very well.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Good afternoon. I am the corporate director of human resources at Olymel. I actively participate in anything to do with recruitment. I will mainly talk about the temporary foreign worker program, or TFWP. Olymel feels that the TFWP does not make it possible to adequately meet its current workforce needs in the regions.