Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My thanks to the witnesses for being here.
I think that everyone here recognizes that Canada is perhaps the most generous country in the world when it comes to our refugee immigration policy.
Isaac Newton said that to every action there is a reaction. We have to think of a way to maintain that generous policy. We have to decide how we can keep bringing 260,000 immigrants into Canada each year, how we can maintain that level of intake that is perhaps the most generous in the world.
My question is about the people with permanent resident status in Canada. Is it reasonable to expect those people to refrain from committing serious crimes here in Canada in order to keep both their status and the trust of Canadians and other immigrants who would like to come to Canada?