Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome once again, Mr. Minister.
It seems to me that you're standing in the centre between two opposite and competing forces. On the one hand, people in the riding I represent, West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country, want you to usher in people to work at the pulp and paper mills, Catalyst Paper and Howe Sound Pulp and Paper, and you're aware of that and you've been changing our rules to foster the immigration of people to take those roles.
In terms of the hospitality industry, you've heard the cry for relaxed rules to enable people to come and work in the Sea to Sky Country, Whistler, and west Vancouver, and then we want tourists to come.
Whatever the type of foreign person, you've been asked to usher them in, and you've responded to the call and have made changes. But at the same time, we expect our department to select immigrants. To select means to make a distinction between those we want in and those we must exclude, so it seems only natural that we come to this point.
I have two questions, Minister, in that context.
First, I've practised law overseas for a decade and seen how people felt perplexed that we were so relaxed in how we dealt with people who lied on their applications. One of the changes you propose in this bill is to finally impose consequences, that those who make misrepresentations must wait two to five years before they can apply again. My first question is, would you please explain how that would work?
Secondly, and this goes right to some of the comments we've heard from my colleagues from the other parties this afternoon. I'm astonished, and many Canadians are astonished, that CSIS could not compel an interview of someone who was identified as a possible security threat in Canada under the current legislation, and your bill proposes to change that.
Can you discuss the changes in those two areas?