Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to see your formula placed before us, because by my calculation, in Ontario the drop in terms of immigrants landed between 2008 and 2009, which is the figure we have—the current data—is 4,000 fewer landed immigrants, from 110,000 to 106,000.
In British Columbia, the drop from 43,992 to 41,438 is a drop of 2,560. That's a 5.8% drop. That drop is much higher than the Ontario drop, which is 3.6%.
So Ontario had a drop within one year of 3.6%, and B.C. had 5.8%. If your cut is $53 million—pure math, pure formula—it's 81% of the cut, of which 43% is directed to Ontario. How would you justify that math? That's why I want to see the formula. That's question number one.
My second question is about the number of immigrants who are being served by all the agencies in the greater Toronto area. You have a list--we all have a list--of all the agencies that lost their funding. I'm wondering if you can provide me with the exact number of clients who will not be served because of the cuts and the number of staff that would be lost because of the cuts. Those are the two figures I'm looking for.
Three, given whatever that number is...and it could be 5,000, I don't know; I'm just pulling that out of the air. It could be 10,000. If that is the number of clients who will be impacted, do you in fact have a plan in place now so that when the people who are being laid off now—March 31 is coming—these 10,000 clients will be able to be absorbed by other agencies? If so, could you provide us with this plan?
Those are my three questions. I may have others.