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House Hansard - 67

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 9, 2022 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 67 - May/9/22
Mr. Yves Perron (Berthier—Maskinongé, BQ)
  • May/9/22 3:52:14 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-19 
Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for her speech. I would like to hear her thoughts about immigration and resources, particularly when it comes to temporary foreign workers. I am a bit disappointed that there is not much about that in Bill C-19. There are a few general measures on economic targets, but they will not really affect Quebec, because Quebec makes its own selections in the economic classes. What we need is significant resources to process applications. Again this morning, I spoke to an asparagus farmer in my riding who had asked to have his workers by April 23. He was so worried he would not get any workers at all that he was prepared to pay them to sit around and do nothing until May 10. Tomorrow is May 10 and he is still short six workers. That is a loss of $100,000.
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Context: House Hansard - 67 - May/9/22
Mr. Yves Perron (Berthier—Maskinongé, BQ)
  • May/9/22 4:39:52 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-19 
Madam Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for his speech. I know he lives in the Niagara region, whose wines I really enjoy, by the way. He heard what I said earlier about temporary foreign workers, about the lack of resources and about the ridiculous chaos we are experiencing, which is jeopardizing not only our agricultural production, but also the survival of our businesses. Could my colleague comment on that?
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Context: House Hansard - 67 - May/9/22
Ms. Lisa Marie Barron (Nanaimo—Ladysmith, NDP)
  • May/9/22 5:08:07 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-19 
Madam Speaker, as the government continues to increase reliance on temporary foreign workers without the protections that come with permanent resident status, we know that temporary foreign workers are increasingly vulnerable to exploitation. Recently, the Auditor General found, through federal inspections, that the health and safety for temporary foreign workers has gotten worse, and that is after the government promised to fix it in 2020. Could the member please clarify: Instead of increasing our reliance on exploiting workers to drive down wages, does she agree that the time to negotiate better wages and work conditions for migrant workers, permanent residents and Canadians is now?
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Context: House Hansard - 67 - May/9/22
Ms. Iqra Khalid
  • May/9/22 5:09:00 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-19 
Madam Speaker, one of the things I hear very regularly within my community, especially from small business owners, is their inability to find workers and skilled tradespeople who can fill those gaps that are being created. We, as a government, over the past number of years have been finding those pathways to permanent residence for those workers who are highly skilled and want to come and live in Canada on a permanent-residence basis. We need to continue to build and provide those supports. A number of years ago, I did a study in the justice committee about trafficking in persons and trying to ensure that migrant workers, for example, were very well represented. There is a lot of work that has been done on this, and we are going to continue to do that work with the advocacy of all members in the House.
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