Thank you very much.
I very much appreciate your comments on fundamental rights and having the courts, at the end of the day, set the standards on the security certificate process. As you know, it was put in there for people with no status. Then it was put in there for immigrants. Then an attempt was made to put the security certificate process in there for citizens as well. I believe it was either Bill C-16 or Bill C-18.
I really am troubled by this whole notion of having more and more temporary foreign workers instead of people who come as citizens to build the country. Historically, this country was built by people with varying levels of skills. Earlier on, the fewer skills you had, the more desirable you were. I remember the men in the sheepskin coats who were brought over to tame the prairies. Now, of course, if you happen to be one of those people, we don't want you--except to bring you in under servitude conditions.
If you watch the evolution from slavery.... When you're tied to a single employer, when you're economically disadvantaged, when you really have no options where you come from, you are essentially put into the position of servitude. It really bothers me that we as Canadians would think about going down the route to that kind of a society. I just find it incredibly offensive that more and more dependence is put on this instead of bringing people to build the country.
I wonder if you have some comments on that.