Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Good afternoon, Minister. Before asking you a question, I would like to say that I am disappointed and the Bloc Québécois is disappointed. We feel that the Conservative government has acted in an underhanded way, a little bit like the American right, by introducing measures to accelerate the immigration process in a budget implementation bill. It appears to us that you could have done things differently. You have said that this provision is directly related to the Canadian economy, but you certainly could have amended the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and presented the budget provisions separately. This causes us to question your government's transparency in this regard.
Will the amendments proposed in this bill affect the existing accord between the Government of Quebec and the Government of Canada?