There's no unanimity on these matters, but I think my general impression, Mr. Chairman, is that there is fairly broad recognition that many aspects of our system had become dysfunctional. We were seeing, on the whole, relative declining economic results for newcomers to Canada. We saw these out-of-control backlogs and ridiculous wait times. We saw the absurdity of admitting large numbers of newcomers to an economy with labour and skill shortages, many of them to be unemployed and underemployed. I think that's the experience of many newcomers.
That's why, generally, I have found that the changes we have made, both to make our economic immigration system more responsive to the economy and to reinforce the integrity of our system, and to ensure that it is characterized by the consistent application of fair rules, those two themes, in my experience, have been widely accepted.
Quite frankly, like all of you, I'm elected, and we couldn't have embarked on transformational immigration change if it weren't accepted broadly by Canadians, including new Canadians.