Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee.
It should be debated--not only debated; it should be defeated. I can show you that many people in public are strongly opposed to this, although there are others who are trying to create confusion.
This is going back many years. I'm going to pick only one example. I'm one of those who immigrated to this country under the point system. There used to be a point system in the 1960s and early 1970s. Ten points, on suitability, were left in the hands of the immigration officer, and were put into practice in any way that person felt like looking at it. That was creating a lot of litigation.
What happened later on due to those problems was that legislation was clear on the point system. Although I'm not in support of the point system, at least we'd be following the proper procedures. Then, based on that....
I just want to say finally that the current system under the new Bill C-50 is basically giving more control to the bureaucrats, and that means immigration officers under the name of the minister will be discarding applications of many. Some of them may be the ones who may not be the right people in the minds of the immigration officers, and of course the minister too.