I appreciate the comments of Mr. Opitz with regard to security. We have already mentioned that there are issues with regard to trafficking.
Let's look at it from a business case perspective. If you're rejecting around 20% of your applicants, and if we use this 300,000 figure—just a rough back-of-the-envelope case—it would be around 60,000 rejections. Let's say they don't come here. Based on Canadian tourism, each Chinese tourist spends around $2,000, so we're leaving about $100 million on the table. That's what I'm getting at from a business perspective. That is the opportunity cost for the security we want to have or the status quo.
I think we need to look at a more holistic approach in terms of what exactly we want here. I want to be very clear, the Prime Minister appears to want more Chinese visitors. He has gone to China a couple of times. I think all MPs support this, but do Canadians support this?
We have to be out there a little bit more with regard to this issue. There are too many stories around. There is, in my view, an anti-Chinese sentiment that has entered some of the public discourse on a whole range of other issues with regard to Chinese investment, etc. It spills over to issues like visitors. Do you want to see more Chinese visitors here?
What we have to do is influence—the administration has to catch up with what MPs and the Prime Minister are saying, that you want to see more visitors here.