Thank you, Mr. Chair, and through you to the witnesses, thank you so much, folks, for travelling from far afield to share your thoughts about the backlog issue with us.
First, Ms. Morrissey, to make sure that your efforts to come from the farthest afield are well spent, I'd like to start with you.
Mr. Thomson—and I hope I get back to you, Mr. Thomson, to ask you a question—talked about immigration being a zero-sum issue, and that has been the premise of this study, I think, as set out by the minister. He approaches it this way.
Yet what we've heard today and previously from other witnesses is that there are multiple streams in the immigration system. Each one serves a different purpose and each stream has different implications for Canada and, indeed, for the global community.
One of the issues you raised around the refugee stream is what the implications of Canada putting a cap on refugee immigration are having around the world. I was wondering if you might share those. I was a bit taken aback by the number you gave; I think it was 46 million displaced persons. Perhaps you could elaborate a bit on the implications of Canada putting caps on refugee claims for the global community.