Mr. Chair, you know that I've tried individually and at committee, both at the subcommittee and at the committee level, to extend the hearings for next Tuesday. I didn't get consensus on that.
Yes, I'd prefer to have some more hearings, some more studies. I approached you directly to see whether...because we haven't received the information from CIC and you persuaded me...because we have a mission coming and we should do wait times. As a result, my motion is in front of this committee.
In some ways I think it's timely that if we can send a message out through this motion that you can't just cut off funding like this without even a transition plan.... If everything that Mr. Dykstra has said is correct and the immigrant numbers in the three-year average in Ontario did drop by 4%, okay. But you have to have some kind of transition plan. Even if you're going to yank funding, you can't just leave people high and dry like that.
I didn't agree with the approach, but my worry is that if we don't deal with the motion today and then we continue with wait times on Tuesday, we haven't really made a decision. So unless there's a motion--