Thank you.
Thank you for being here today. I'm new to this committee and this Parliament, and I'm still learning many things about this issue, but it strikes me that what I've learned, both on the immigration and on the refugee side, is that it's not a partisan issue and it's not really an ideological issue. There seem to be logistical issues or administrative and bureaucratic challenges in terms of how the process should work.
One of the points you made was that it would certainly be less expensive to bring people into Canada for family reunification and to process the cases here rather than processing them overseas.
When some people apply for visitors visas, it appears they are being denied them because there's a concern if they arrive here and then decide they don't want to leave, it's very difficult to deal with that situation. People who would have been granted visas in the past are not being granted visitors visas today because they can claim charter rights once they arrive in Canada.
Would this be the same situation for family reunification? If your suggestion, which was that it would be less expensive and simpler to bring those cases into Canada and process them here, as opposed to wherever they are taking place, would that be a legitimate concern that once those people come into Canada to be processed, regardless of the outcome of that process, the decision has been made because they're already in the country and would be unlikely to leave? From the point of view of a government having a prudent process, would that or should that be a concern?