Citizenship and Immigration committee  Can I make a comment on that last point you just made about engineers? We have a lot of underemployed university graduates flipping hamburgers in this country who we believe should be given an opportunity to work in the trades.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We quite agree that our industry and all industries in this country should be training their own workers. However, there are many employers within our economy that do not train and are going to need, particularly, skilled trades workers right across the country. Their strategy se

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I actually sit on the WSIB, so I could answer some questions on whether they are covered or not. Yes, we support that kind of program. We're part of that now. The problem is that the undocumented workers in our industry aren't registered with anybody, so they're not paying CPP,

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would start by saying yes, we would support a system that recognizes them as they come in. The building trades unions are not supportive of people coming into the country illegally and gaining their employment illegally and then using that as a way to get past the.... If the im

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If the workers came into Canada, into Ontario, in the construction industry, through the unionized trades they would automatically be able to move from employer to employer. If they came in through the unrepresented area, they might be able to move from employer to employer, but

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'd like to make a comment. The first comment would be that government seems to apply the broad brush to whatever circumstance they're trying to deal with. There is no doubt in my mind that the issues around migrant workers in the country are somewhat different from the tempora

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Did you want comments on the undocumented workers?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. On the undocumented worker side, we have some real issues. The federal government a few years ago started up the CREWS program in Toronto. It gave input to labour and management in the construction industry to work with that program. I think it had some reasonable s

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Good afternoon. Thank you for the opportunity to share our views with the committee. As stated, my name is Patrick Dillon. I'm a business manager and the secretary-treasurer of the Provincial Building and Construction Trades Council of Ontario, which is an umbrella organization