Thank you, Mr. Chair.
And thank you, gentlemen, for coming to this committee.
I came from Hong Kong and my doctorate degree was in studying immigrant entrepreneurs. I definitely have followed 40 immigrant entrepreneurs for two years, so I know the challenges they have had and the skill sets they have had.
I want to comment on a couple of things. First of all, I definitely agree with Mr. Major's recommendation. What the government has been doing is moving files between offices. In fact, if you look at numbers, in 2004 in Hong Kong alone we had 3,459. But in 2008 the number rose to 11,244. What the government has done is exactly what you have just said, which is to transfer files between offices, and that's why the waiting time has been reduced. But of course we can still do better.
Looking at some of the economic impacts of the investor class immigrants, I know that Mr. Major is very familiar with the Vancouver area. Could you quote some actual examples of the economic impact of these investor immigrants?