Thank you very much. I'll be sharing my time with Madame Folco.
Thank you very much for coming.
Particularly on the issue of undocumented workers, Professor Gravel, I wanted to mention what we heard from a professor at York University yesterday. Instead of calling them undocumented, which really creates visions of all the Mexicans going into the United States without any status, she said that in the case of Canada most of them are in precarious status; most of the undocumented workers came into Canada legally and then overstayed their visas and what have you. It's only a very small number.
I've been talking about undocumented workers for a long time, and that really gave us a different perspective, just from the viewpoint that people may think “undocumented” people who are here might be terrorists or were never cleared to come into Canada. It might create that impression. I think having precarious immigration status or having status expired is not quite as threatening as being undocumented. I've been talking about undocumented workers for years and I found that to be an interesting point to make.
I agree in terms of the terrible situations undocumented folks are in. I think we'd be much better off to regularize them and go through a process of regularization to get them out from the shadows so that they're part of mainstream Canadian society.
That's the comment I wanted to make; you can respond to it, and then I'll give it over to Madame Folco.