I know all that well. I just asked because I just added up the numbers. In Chandigarh a work permit has a 15% approval rate, a study permit, 29%. So you're looking at 18,617 people being turned down. Don't tell me they all have fraudulent documents or they're cheating. Yes, some of them are coached by unscrupulous consultants to lie, and then some of them come over here—a few—and they end up exploiting the system.
I noted when you were here a few months ago you talked about how you'd bring in a program where you would tighten up the consultants program, so that would get rid of the ghost consultants, etc. Our committee again approved a report with nine recommendations; still we haven't seen progress on it. You also talked about fixing the live-in caregivers program the last time you were here, and still it hasn't been fixed. The citizenship of descendants of adopted kids in Canada--that is an area that's causing stateless kids of Canadians born outside Canada. All of those areas are really critically important, and this committee has made recommendations for you to look at and to implement, and yet I haven't seen...it's not in your policy and priority area.
Coming back to Chandigarh and to the Asia-Pacific area, I was on a radio program and people were saying, “Is that discrimination? Why is it that we have such a high turn-down rate?”, and “What is it in our region? Are we being discriminated against?” Certainly there's a feeling that because the process—the application and the rejection—is so opaque, not transparent, they can't tell why they are rejected. “How come so-and-so got in and I didn't?” As a result, it's causing, really, a bad reputation overseas.