Ms. Osmani, Ms. Ouar, we are taking note of your seven recommendations for live-in caregivers. They are all the more important since, as we know, the population is aging virtually across Canada. There's also the work that you do with students. You very often babysit children. That's very important, and we are taking note of the seven recommendations that you've made here today.
We're not promising you that we'll solve the problems, but I do promise that I won't be like Ms. Folco. In 10 years, I won't be telling you that we'd think we were still at the same point. I hope we'll be able to do justice to your work.
As for my other friends, I hope we'll be able to make them understand more clearly what Bill C-50 is. Ensuring that someone who works here no longer needs to leave the country to file an immigration application, reducing the cost of an immigration application by half, making the matter easier through all kinds of ways, these are major challenges. There are nearly 500,000 undocumented workers in Canada. These people have nothing, no references; they do not exist, but they are here. As you'll understand, we have to do some housekeeping. I'm obviously not talking about sending them back to their countries, but about regularizing the situation. That's an important challenge, and it's with you that we have to work. You are our partners in this matter. We've come to see you here today because we are aware of the problem. We have to work together to advance this. I take note of that and I want you to be aware of that.
Mr. Henaway, you made some comments. I understand them, but I would like to be able to sit down with you and to explain to you properly what is going on, what our aim is. If my Liberal colleagues and those from the other parties don't agree, they can vote against this bill and defeat it, since our government is a minority government. Everything we're telling you is thus conditional on the bill's passage. I would appreciate that the truth be told everywhere, and that's the situation.