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{
"time": "2022-05-10 14:55:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. S\u00e9bastien Lemire (Abitibi\u2014T\u00e9miscamingue, BQ)",
"fr": "M. S\u00e9bastien Lemire (Abitibi\u2014T\u00e9miscamingue, BQ)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7136602\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Mr. Speaker, last year, as I recall, there was COVID-19, so there were fewer applications.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7136603\" data-originallang=\"fr\">While Ottawa is asleep at the wheel when it comes to temporary foreign workers, our small and medium-sized businesses are being clobbered by the labour shortage.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7136604\" data-originallang=\"fr\">While the government tells us that everything is fine, 15% of Quebec's SMEs are outsourcing their operations because they do not have anyone to work at the plant, and 62% of them are losing contracts because they do not have any workers, because they have to raise their prices, and because they have to deliver their products late.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7136605\" data-originallang=\"fr\">When will the government realize that they need to do everything they can to expedite and streamline the arrival of temporary foreign workers for our SMEs?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7136602\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, l'an dernier, je le rappelle, il y avait la COVID\u201119, ce qui fait qu'il y avait moins de demandes.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7136603\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Pendant qu'Ottawa dort au gaz dans le dossier des travailleurs \u00e9trangers temporaires, nos PME se font d\u00e9cimer par la p\u00e9nurie de la main\u2011d'\u0153uvre.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7136604\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Pendant que le gouvernement nous dit que tout va bien, 15 % des PME du Qu\u00e9bec d\u00e9localisent leurs activit\u00e9s, parce qu'elles n'ont pas personne pour rentrer \u00e0 l'usine, et 62 % d'entre elles perdent des contrats, parce qu'elles n'ont pas de travailleurs, parce qu'elles doivent monter leurs prix, parce qu'elles doivent livrer leurs produits en retard.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7136605\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Quand le gouvernement va-t-il comprendre qu'il faut tout faire pour acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer et all\u00e9ger l'arriv\u00e9e des travailleurs \u00e9trangers temporaires dans nos PME?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2022/5/10/sebastien-lemire-2/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/sebastien-lemire/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4580/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "11676344",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Immigration, refugees and citizenship",
"fr": "L\u2019immigration, les r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s et la citoyennet\u00e9"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2022/5/10/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2022%2F5%2F10%2F"
}
}