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Minutes of Proceedings

Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities (HUMA)
42nd Parliament, 1st Session
Meeting No. 15
Wednesday, June 1, 2016, 3:37 p.m. to 5:31 p.m.
Televised
Presiding
Bryan May, Chair (Liberal)

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• Mike Bossio for Yves Robillard (Liberal)
• Rodger Cuzner (Liberal)
Library of Parliament
• Dominique Fleury, Analyst
• Mayra Perez-Leclerc, Analyst
Temporary Foreign Worker Program
Information Technology Association of Canada
• Robert Watson, President and Chief Executive Officer
As an individual
• Bruce Webster
Caregivers' Action Centre
• Marcia Barrett, Representative
HyLife
• Jeremy Janzen, Senior Director, Human Resources
• Baerbel Langner, In House Legal Counsel, Immigration
Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council
• Portia MacDonald-Dewhirst, Executive Director
Agriculture and Agri-Food Labour Task Force
• Mark Wales, Labour Task Force, Agriculture
United Food and Commercial Workers Union Canada
• Claudia Colocho
• Naveen Mehta, General Counsel, Director of Human Rights, Equity and Diversity
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2) and the motion adopted by the Committee on Monday, March 21, 2016, the Committee resumed its study of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.

Bruce Webster, by videoconference from Langley, British Columbia, Robert Watson and Marcia Barrett, by videoconference from Toronto, Ontario made statements and answered questions.

At 4:30 p.m., the sitting was suspended.

At 4:35 p.m., the sitting resumed.

Jeremy Janzen, Baerbel Langner, Portia MacDonald-Dewhirst, Mark Wales, Claudia Colocho and Naveen Mehta made statements and answered questions.

At 5:16 p.m., by unanimous consent and pursuant to Standing Order 115(5), it was agreed that the Committee continue to sit.

At 5:31 p.m., the Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.



Michael MacPherson
Committee Clerk