Yes, I do, Mr. Chair.
I really would like to thank you for coming. I was just looking at the title of the booklet you gave us, “It's time to act”, “C'est le temps d'agir”. It certainly is a title that we could be using for our report when we do our report, because it really is great.
Let me just say a couple of things. Number one, one of the beauties about the Maritimes, and it sure hasn't been lost on me, is one of the things I do when I go anywhere is look at the real estate, and somebody can actually come here as a worker and buy a house. You can't say the same for Toronto or Vancouver or Edmonton or Calgary or Kitchener-Waterloo, Waterloo region. So that's a real plus. The other one is that the geography is just beautiful. I could sell my house in Waterloo region and I could come down here and I could have a cottage down in Florida, because I understand the winters are harsh. The fishing is great and the outdoor life is great, and it's a beautiful part of the country. I just wanted to leave that with you.
I thank you very much. You have taken a real initiative. We appreciate it and wish you all the success.
I'll just leave you with one thought. Push the government to do reform. One thing that the landed immigrant will do for you, and it's been said before, is if somebody decides to come here, then they end coming with capital that they invest here when they come, versus the temporary foreign worker who will come and might be landed. But when somebody decides that they're going to pick up stakes and they're going to move somewhere, then they take everything they have and they invest it in the place where they establish.
Merci beaucoup.