The point is simply recognizing that the parents, especially if you break it down, of immigrants do have a role to play through immigration. That's the point I was going to make.
When we make reference to immigrants stealing jobs, some of you give the impression that if we didn't have immigrants we would have more jobs or higher-paying jobs. I'll reflect on Manitoba. In Manitoba, there are certain industries that would not be healthy today if it were not for immigrants coming to the province of Manitoba. It's one of the reasons why, as a province, we have been doing well in the last decade. It's through the provincial nominee program and recognizing the important role that immigrants have to play in the economy, and it has allowed us to expand our economy. By expanding the economy, the per capita increases.
So would you at the very least acknowledge that there are certain industries across the country in which if we didn't have immigrants participating, there's a very good chance that those industries could have shrunk, maybe even possibly disappeared, and that takes away from the per capita? Would you at least acknowledge that there is some merit to that argument?