Thank you. I'm going to share my time with my other colleagues here.
Erika, I listened to you, and all of you, in your passion. All of you are doing God's work, or if you don't believe in God, then maybe you're Santa's elves, because we know there's not big money in what you're doing. But boy oh boy, there's a lot of passion in your vocation. I know that.
I agree with you, and this is why I'm not going to do a lot of questioning. If we have to have workers come back again and again because we're short of workers, then perhaps after a certain period of time they should be allowed to apply to stay in Canada.
When we're talking about older workers...and for every case you see of abuse and racism and exploitation, I guarantee there are five or six others out there. I want to know how you contact people about changes and how you're able to assist them. Would giving a senior's pension to landed immigrants after two to three years in Canada alleviate some of the employment and financial situations where older workers are exploited?
We know the point system doesn't work all that well. We have cabbies and sweepers with Ph.Ds, with doctor's degrees and dentist's degrees, working and being way underemployed. With the point system being what it is, would it be beneficial if we either eliminated the point system and based it on what our needs are--and certainly unskilled labour is still a need within Canada and probably always will be--or do we add another classification to the point system in order to accommodate people to be landed as permanent residents?
I'd like the first two women to answer that, please.