Citizenship and Immigration committee  The group just before you made an interesting recommendation that maybe we should have an advocacy office jointly administered by the federal and provincial governments for migrant workers at which they could report abuses, be made aware of their rights, and what have you. Do you

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Okay. Thank you.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think I've addressed it a few times.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In our view, the issue is a two-part issue. There are those isolated individual circumstances where you need skilled labour very quickly for a short period of time, and that's the kind of thing this program should be addressing. But in the context of training and skilling our pop

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It has been our fundamental position from the outset of the question that the program needs to be rethought; it needs to be restructured. The current system we don't believe is functional and indeed creates more issues than it addresses in the narrow context of a single employer.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Very well. Good morning. The issue of temporary foreign workers is very high on organized labour's radar right now for a number of reasons, but time limitations being what they are, I'll touch on a few key points and recommendations from the material I've prepared for other purp