Thank you.
What our government is doing, then, is we're taking a compassionate approach. How compassionate is it to wait six years or eight years for answers? What we need is a system that matches....
How compassionate is it to have people who come here, who don't have opportunities...? They come with skills, under a skilled worker program, and they're not given opportunities for employment. We have communities waiting for physicians. We need to create the efficiencies in this program.
Certainly it was a very difficult decision in terms of the federal skilled workers, but hopefully many of those people have the skills, and they will match, and they have the opportunity to reapply.
In the red tape reduction commission, as we travelled across the country, we heard across the country some of the challenges with the temporary foreign workers program. We listened. We are trying to adapt. We are making some changes. These are important changes for our immigration system, absolutely vital to Canada's future, to our economy. We can't wait for six years before we actually move forward on making these important changes.
Thank you very much.