My question will be short, Mr. Chair. If my colleague Mr. Telegdi also wants to pick up on something, I'll share my time with him.
Gentlemen, I want to thank you for appearing.
I do hear, “We're good, they're bad; we do it, they don't do it.” Mr. Hu said something about the competency of immigration consultants. I agree that some of the consultants who are being weeded out by CSIC do have problems with the language barrier. Sometimes when you need to communicate with CIC, you need to be proficient in the language used. Some of their forms, I grant you, even lawyers have difficulty reading.
My real difficulty is with what I heard the minister say yesterday, and officials from the department, who said that coming to Canada is not a right, it's a privilege. At the port of entry, I can see that this is a privilege for you to enter or not, but the right to apply should not be taken away from anybody. For the minister to have the right to refuse applications is certainly something that a lot of you, I think, will have problems with.
Some of you might have been consulted by the minister on the new regulations coming down. I would ask each one of you if that's the case.