With great respect to Mrs. Kusie, as the person who sets these policies, I can tell you that I wasn't informed by McKinsey's work and didn't meet with them in my development of this past year's immigration levels plan. As I mentioned during my opening remarks, this is driven by the need for businesses to find workers, to identify the skills that will be necessary to grow the Canadian economy for the next generation and to make sure we're doing what we can to continue to be a leader on humanitarian issues and reuniting families.
The allegation that McKinsey is making decisions around immigration levels policy is false. The truth is that there were two contracts between 2018 and 2020 that were geared towards improvements to the digital processing of cases and movement towards a fully digitized system at IRCC, but it is not a true allegation that McKinsey has somehow been able to set the federal government's immigration policy.