Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I'd like to also thank our witnesses today for delivering their speeches.
I have a couple of questions.
From listening to your speech and from researching it myself, I think we can all agree we have to have practical and realistic limits to how many people we can welcome into Canada. There are many things we have to consider. We need to make sure we have the proper resources for settlement services. We want to make sure people can come to Canada and pick up one of our languages—learn either French or English. And of course there are also the added costs related to health care for new people coming into Canada.
I'm wondering if you could expand on these practical limits—why they are necessary—and also comment on why Canada, for a very long time, has had to have these limits in place.
Thank you.