When Robert Brouillette joined his family’s fabrication shop, City Welding, well over a decade ago, his dad, Georges, handed him a file on hiring foreign workers along with a simple request: “Get it done.”
In the 34 years since Georges had started the Sudbury business, Canadian skilled workers had become scarcer. So he decided to look outside the country for the people he needed to grow his shop to its full potential.
A lawyer by training, Robert Brouillette wasn’t easily intimidated by the labyrinthine tangle of programs, policies, regulations and guidelines that form the Canadian immigration system. In short order, City Welding found and hired its first foreign worker.