Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and thank you to all the witnesses.
I will use my time on two issues, the immigration question and the EI.
On immigration, I say to Victor Wong and Ms. Zerehi that I basically agree with the thrust of what you are saying. Mr. Wong, you represent the Chinese Canadian National Council, and my riding is 38% Chinese people, so what you say is what I'm hearing, and I definitely agree. I've used the term “it treats immigrants like commodities rather than people” and you've used the term “temp agency”. I think it is the same thrust.
I'd like to ask one question. I don't think I heard either of you mention it, but the government is no longer obliged to accept applications from outside Canada on humanitarian and compassionate grounds. Could either or both of you give your view on that, concisely?