Thank you, Mr. Dykstra.
Overall, there's a 76% acceptance rate for temporary resident visa applications from nationals in the broader Asian region. So the suggestion that this is somehow prejudicial on the basis of geography or ethnicity is manifestly untrue. It would be absurd for anyone to suggest such a thing of our professional public servants: that they are making these decisions on the basis of such factors.
These are case-by-case decisions. People sometimes have a hard time understanding the decisions of visa officers, but they often don't know the particulars of the case in hand.
I intend to come forward with improvements to the regulation of third parties—intermediaries and ghost consultants. I am also seeking improvements to the live-in caregiver program. But we're going to have to agree to disagree on the issue of the right to inherit citizenship ad infinitum. All members of this committee who were in the last Parliament agreed to the legislative modifications now in place.