What you say is true. While Quebec chooses most of its immigrants itself, at least all the economic immigrants, you often hear the complaint that once someone is selected, we no longer have control over the time that the federal government takes to do the health and security checks. In Quebec, we really have this problem with immigrants in the investor category. We try to get a competitive advantage by doing the selection very quickly. We are among the quickest in the world, but once Ottawa gets the ball, we have no more control over the process.
In all cases, whatever the level of autonomy that the provinces have, there could be a requirement that, for example, the federal government should process 80% of cases within six months. Then we would be able to have an idea of the amount of time that the federal government puts into processing applications for security and health. Would you be receptive to that idea?