I'm just going to give you one much more recent example. We talked about these deaths and released this report, and Minister Marco Mendicino went on air and said, with regard to the agri-food immigration pilot, that they've heard us and that in fact it was the Liberals' idea and that they've already done it. The minister knows that these men could not apply for the program, yet he chooses to lie.
The Prime Minister and ministers keep issuing media statements rather than actually talking to real people. Who has talked to a single migrant or undocumented person in the last three months? Over the last six years with this government, we have held multiple meetings. Immigration and employment officials invited politicians to come meet directly with migrants, who have always said the same thing. They smile, they nod, they go home and they create these partial programs without any talk.
The entire quarantine was designed to keep Canadians protected, not migrants. That's what happened. The $1,500 was given to protect Canadians; therefore, as you can see, that's who was protected, not migrants. Migrants are treated as the risk and the threat rather than as people who are at risk.
There is a central component of racism and dehumanization that's built into the entire temporary immigration system, and it appears at every turn.