Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Good evening.
Mr. Jean, I see that you have lengthy experience at the Department of Citizenship and Immigration. You are therefore very familiar with this issue, certainly more than I am. I have been a member of the committee for six months only.
The points system considered a number of factors in evaluating any immigration application. A good citizen needs a number of different qualities. The present bill seems to start from a list of already established priorities. Nothing tells us which other factors could be considered. Could we have kept the points system while still prioritizing the various government wishes and still allowing applications to be examined?
The present bill says nothing about how the applications will be subsequently evaluated, even those on the priority list. I see a problem there. How can the other important elements of an application be evaluated without a points system?