Thank you very much.
We have a broken immigration system. The last set of changes, which make it impossible to endorse workers that the economy needs, be it trades or be it lower skills, has created a real problem.
That blueprint was drawn up by the bureaucracy. Make no mistake. When you hear that the minister has this power or that power, it's the bureaucrats in action. One thing I've found about the bureaucracy is that they're not so interested in defending their minister as in defending past decisions. This whole process of cutting back, of eliminating from the point system people they commonly need, really gives a push to the undocumented worker category. Instead of admitting the mistake and doing some regularization programs and fixing the system so that we actually get people here as landed immigrants, the new fix is to have the temporary foreign worker. If you're dealing with captains of industry or what have you, I have no problem. But when you're dealing with people with no power, which is most of the temporary foreign workers, I have a huge problem.
We brought in the Chinese to build the railway. It seems to me that they want to bring in another group to build the tar sands and to then get rid of them.
The sooner we can get and limit the program, the better. It's so bothersome when you know you have agricultural workers coming back year after year after year, for decades. They should be able to come in as immigrants. They're contributing to the economy. The EI they pay is just ridiculous; they can't collect EI. That should be paid to an advocacy group.