I want to return to the issue around the relationship with the provinces in two particular areas that you identified in the report, not necessarily with respect to recommendations, but more as they were outlined in your review in terms of the relationship that the federal government does have.
There are two areas. One is the whole issue surrounding the change we made in legislation with respect to part 6 in the budget, Bill C-50, which changed the point system. It made it more conditional upon Canada's economic need, Canada's need with respect to market forces, and how one would become a permanent resident in Canada through that application.
In that area, you spoke to the issue surrounding how those categories are arrived at--for 2009 there are 38 categories--and the direction we should take with respect to how we determine those categories. I found it quite interesting, because from going through the process and from being involved as a parliamentary secretary, I noticed how much detail we put into the work and the effort of dealing with stakeholders who could advise us, whether they were labour unions, public sector unions, provincial governments, or business. We went through an exhaustive list initially to ensure that the first time we went through this, we'd get it right, and second, that we had set in place a process that would allow us to make sure we were picking the right categories and in fact assisting the provinces, the territories, and the federal government in a way that's going to make it successful over the long term.
You were not critical, but you questioned how that process was going to work. I'm taking issue a little bit because the process I went through in terms of assisting with that and reviewing it seemed to be extremely exhaustive and detailed.