Thank you very much.
I've been on this committee for about ten years. We have issued many good reports which, for the most part, have been ignored by government. One of the simple conclusions I've come to over the years is the bureaucracy really has run the system, is running the system, has messed up the system, and now wants total control in terms of how they continue to mess up the system, lacking both transparency and accountability.
We have a vote coming up on Bill C-50, and it's a budget vote. If we defeat that budget, then we're into an election and we're not going to be talking about Bill C-50.
Right now the situation is that Bill C-50 will be talked about in the budget committee, but we have motions from everybody now to make sure that the citizenship and immigration committee talks about it. I think what we have to do is take the time in those discussions to make sure that Canadians across the country appreciate what's contained in Bill C-50, what the challenges are, and what the draconian proposed solutions will be.
What I'm putting out to you is this: would you want us to defeat Bill C-50 before we talk about the immigration stuff, the amendments, or should we talk about and study the implications on the immigration act? That's the question I'm putting out to you. I think we have to engage Canadians coast to coast to coast. They really have to wake up to what the implications of the amendments to the immigration act really are.
Can I start with you, Ms. Sadoway?