What I would say, Mr. Chairman, is that we need to find tools to make the management of this program sustainable in the long run so we don't end up with a massive excess of applications over admissions. The task for this committee, and ultimately for me as minister, is to find a balanced and reasonable way of limiting future applications to the number of people we are able to admit. I don't think we should rule anything in or out. We should look at all possible options. In one of our peer countries the privilege of family sponsorship is limited to citizens. You may want to ask the researchers to look at that. We'll certainly be looking at all of those options.
On November 24th, 2011. See this statement in context.