That's probably about two minutes more than I need, Mr. Chair.
All kidding aside, I am here as a guest today. It's the first time I've actually even subbed in on this particular committee. Obviously, I'm seized with the issue and I appreciate your being here.
Reverend Prentice and Reverend Gauthier Glasgow, I just want to say how much I appreciated your testimony. My grandmother was very strong in her faith as a Christian. She practised as an Anglican, and I had many occasions to visit our church in my hometown of Lacombe. She was a very interesting lady, very compassionate in her own right, but also very staunchly conservative in her views. I'm sure she would be having a similar conundrum in trying to reconcile some of the things we're discussing here today.
The question I have for you is one of where we can do the most good. From a global perspective, is it in the best interests with the limited resources that we have—and I'll get to resources with Mr. Waldman in a moment—and I've heard lectures from people on both sides of the issue, to be investing our capital and our time in a bureaucratic process here to bring a limited number of people here, and let's face it, it's a lot of people, but it's a very limited number of people who might otherwise need help throughout the world. Or, should we be using those resources to do more good, whether it's capacity building, governance building, democracy building, any of those other kinds of exercises around the world? If you could answer that, just from a 30,000-foot view, because we all want the same thing. We want to do what's right for humankind. We want to do what's in the best interest to elevate everybody's standard of living around the world.
Could you help us with that? Are those questions that you ask yourselves when you're doing this? We're spending a lot of time and effort talking about a select few people who come here to seek refugee status, and we're spending a lot of money trying to sort out this process. Is that the right thing to do, from a global perspective?