Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. Concerning the pilot program's criteria, since Aliments Asta is a Quebec–based company, we must use the provincial program involving permanent selection. However, it is currently very difficult to meet the criteria for permanent selection. In our case, some 30 Filipi

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would like to expand on this, Ms. Kwan. We recommend completely removing the limit, as our activities are a logical extension of primary agriculture. If not, our second recommendation would be to increase the limit to 30%. However, permanent selection programs must also be

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The longer the duration of work permits, the more ensured we are of operational stability. After the pilot program ends, we would like work permits to remain of a duration of 24 months, and not 12 months as the case has been over the past few years. That would give us some flexib

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm sorry, but I didn't hear the beginning of your question.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, indeed. That's what we indicated briefly. Thank you for the opportunity to talk about that, since I didn't have time to do that earlier. We would indeed like to see more flexibility in the permanent selection of workers, and make it easier for temporary foreign workers to a

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Excuse me. Mr. Chair, we had five minutes for both, right?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much. Forgive me for interrupting you, Mrs. Poitras. Good afternoon, everyone. I'll try to be brief. Despite all of our constant and innovative recruitment efforts, we have a shortage of workers. The temporary foreign worker program is our last resort, but it is