Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I will remind my colleagues that actually this section does include temporary foreign workers too, and I reiterate that I was quite offended by the comments made by Pat Martin with regard to roving gangs of Lebanese temporary foreign workers who are stealing Canadians' jobs. It is utterly atrocious to hear a parliamentarian speak of immigrants in such a fashion.
Nevertheless, I do have some questions for our wonderful guests, our witnesses who have waited all night to have a chance to speak. Rather than parliamentarians bantering back and forth with perhaps some inflated and exaggerated comments, I'm going to ask you why we are eliminating the foreign skilled workers backlog. Why?