Ms. Libby Davies (Vancouver East, NDP):
Mr. Speaker, the reason that Atlantic Canadians are being turned down is so that big oil companies can move faster on their cheap labour strategy, aided and abetted by the Conservative government.
Yesterday we learned that Chinese temporary foreign workers in the tar sands were paid one-eighth of what Canadians get for doing the same work. Another report from BC found that migrant workers in Canada are “under conditions that amount to indentured servitude”.