Thank you very much.
Mr. Irving, your company has done tremendous work not just in terms of bringing in immigrants so that they can work at your firm and contribute but in terms of actually making them feel welcome. I understand that a centre of excellence has been established at Irving and that you've reached out on this. Your company is working with the Multicultural Association of the Greater Moncton Area and, it looks like, the Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia.
The company is quite open, obviously, to immigration and sees that as a real pillar of the economy. We have heard at this committee, not just here in our visits but in Ottawa as well, about the importance of the Atlantic immigration pilot. I come from London, Ontario, as I said at the outset, but our entire region outside London, and the southwestern Ontario region, is plagued by population issues. We are growing at a rate of around 1% and, in some communities, less than 1%.
There has been some talk of potentially expanding this immigration pilot. It seems to have been tremendously successful. Can you speak either to the pilot, if you like, or to immigration in general in terms of what it means not just for New Brunswick but for the Atlantic region in general, particularly when it comes to the challenge of population growth?