Just so we totally understand each other, and I expect that you will provide the committee with the answer, right now there are thousands—2,000, 3,000, 4,000—of people who have status in Canada, but because of serious criminality concerns, Canada is rightfully trying to get rid of them. There's a real bottleneck, and the bottleneck is not being able to get a date with the Immigration Appeal Division. They can't be processed until they have their hearing before the Immigration Appeal Division. All permanent residents are entitled to a hearing prior to being removed from the country. I really want to get a handle on those numbers, and I want you to provide that to us, because I know you have the figures and I know they're in the many thousands.
My concern is this. Instead of focusing on those folks who we rightfully have identified are a concern because of criminality and who, to create a more peaceful community in Canada, if you will, we want to get rid of--we can't get rid of them because of the lack of positions on the Immigration Appeal Division--we're getting rid of undocumented workers, a problem that we have created because of the point system, which doesn't work for the economy. They seem to be getting all the priority, even though it hurts the economy. It would seem to me that if we're going to get rid of folks on a priority basis, it should be at the level of the ones we want to get rid of because of criminality.
The other issue is that the previous minister, not of this government but of the previous government, was working on some program of regularization that was trying to come to grips with undocumented workers. How far did you get in that process? I know it was quite a way along.