Certainly part of the purpose of immigration is to help improve the standard of living and quality of life of all people in Canada, including newcomers to Canada. As you know, we were left with a mess by the previous Liberal government. We were left with about 800,000 people who were entitled to be interviewed in order of the time that they applied. This is not practical and not in the best interests of the country.
We have labour shortages in virtually all parts of Canada, particularly in the west. Surely we want to look at matching skills to jobs as part of--not all of, but part of--the immigration program in Canada.