Absolutely. It is one of our policy priorities. We believe that workers should be landed on arrival.
We need to look at two things. We need to provide a system to land those who are already here and to then open up. That's why I talked about looking at our economic selection process as a way of addressing some of that. Those who are coming in to work temporarily should not be coming in temporarily but as permanent residents.
I know that Syed Hussan makes fun of people like me who say things like, “Good enough to work, good enough to stay.” I absolutely agree with him, but it goes back to the earlier questioner about folks paying into our EI and CPP and not being able to have those benefits.
Yes, workers should be landed on arrival, and those who are already here should be given some regularization program so that they can become permanent residents on their way to citizenship.