So please, Roopa.

So I think, Iris, first and foremost, this is a very good question because we are talking of a region where more than two-thirds of the world's population stays.

And I'm going a little beyond India here.

Uh, you can call it the Global South.

You can call it the emerging nations.

That's the term I like.

Uh, and this is the entire region across South Asia, Southeast Asia to Middle East and Africa.

... interesting consortium.

So even given that ratio, will this make a huge difference?

I think it will, because what's important to note here is that a lot of temporary foreign workers, quote unquote workers, are not under the temporary foreign workers program.

We have another program that allows for open work permits called the International Mobility Program.

And a lot of the Tim Hortons workers that we see are actually under the IMP, the International Mobility Programs, having studied in Canada, often gotten a degree and then From that degree, they got access to an open work permit called the postgraduate work permit.

So a lot of the temporary foreign workers were not necessarily under the temporary foreign worker program.

So even though the statistics, you know, the official statistics given by Tim Hortons shows that a very small percentage of their workers are under the TFWP, the temporary foreign worker program, many others were also essentially temporary foreign workers under this open work permit international mobility program so i think this commitment to uh you know hiring 10 000 canadian uh workers or permanent residents or canadian workers i think it is fairly significant actually

But are there not checks and balances in place linked to the unemployment rate, linked to of what they're paying workers that that kind of come into play with what any company not only tim hortons but with how tim hortons can use the temporary foreign worker program

absolutely so most significantly as of april 1st employers filing for a labor market impact assessment which is required to get a temporary foreign worker must adhere to more strict requirements So for example, they have to post and advertise the position for longer, for at least eight consecutive weeks.

Now the government is letting young people's jobs be stolen by foreign temporary workers.

But even back then, there was this idea that the LMIA system is broken.

It actually doesn't really produce any credible data on whether there is no Canadian to do the job, and by allowing employers to bring in these temporary foreign workers, you're keeping Canadian wages low and working conditions low.

Employers have no incentive to improve things because they can just find cheap labor to take care of things and not have to actually invest.

Because of public outcry, the number of temporary foreign workers, particularly within this low-wage stream, was cut down significantly, and the ability of establishments like the Tim Hortons and the McDonald's to bring in temporary foreign workers was curtailed quite a bit back then.

Instead, what we found is that the government actually split off the TFWP into two streams.

They called it the International Mobility Program.

You think?