Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the witnesses for coming today.
You spoke about the increase in immigration targets in your first report and you mentioned it again in your most recent report. I have a unique story.
I'm the son of immigrants. My parents came here in the late seventies or early eighties. They worked really hard, and lo and behold, I got a chance to go to some of the best schools in the country. Something really interesting happened when I became a member of Parliament. I heard people of my parents' generation, who are now well settled in Canada, start to complain that new immigrants were taking their children's jobs.
The irony was not lost upon me. I'm sure that somebody was complaining that my parents were taking their jobs .
You have said that immigration is good for economic growth. Can you expand upon that a little in layman's terms, so that the average, everyday Canadian could probably understand the idea?