Excellent.
So at a time when the minister has touted that immigration levels are stable or perhaps even increasing—but we can at least agree that they're stable—at a time when we know that needs of immigrants are at the very least stable if not increasing, as we've seen anecdotally in many of our ridings, it doesn't seem logical to me that given the fragile economic recovery that we're facing right now, by cutting $53 million from settlement funding globally, we are depriving thousands upon thousands of immigrants from integration tools and settlement tools that would allow them to contribute to their economy rather than be receivers of welfare and social programs.
That's the part I don't understand. Why are we cutting $53 million when it's an economic benefit to make sure that we are training and providing settlement services?