Yes, it was an interesting article by Fareed Zakaria, who noted the relative success of Canada's immigration system in fuelling, in part, our economic growth recently. All I would add is that one of the reasons we've planned to maintain immigration levels for the next year is precisely because we believe that immigration will be the fuel of the jobs of the future. When we come into the recovery phase, out of this global economic downturn, we will need people to fuel the future jobs, and the last thing we want is to come to the recovery phase and have labour market shortages. I was just in western Canada on the weekend meeting with employers and temporary foreign workers, and I can tell you there continues to be demand for permanent residents, for temporary foreign workers, in certain sectors in certain regions, notwithstanding the downturn in the overall labour market.
On March 10th, 2009. See this statement in context.