Thank you, Ms. James.
The biggest advantage is that immigrants don't want their parents to come here. They don't want to yank them out of their own social networks. My mother-in-law, before she came to Canada, had a vibrant social network. Every day she'd call up people and they'd argue about the price of chicken and eggs. She can't do that in Canada, unfortunately. So to bring them from there and uproot them....
The only reason my mother-in-law has a family-class visa is not because she wants to stay with us, but because it's so difficult.... After coming to Canada for six months, she was refused a visitor visa for two consecutive years. The third time, finally, we applied for it.
Now, the interesting thing the minister has also put in is that you would be paying for private medical. And Ms. James, may I just touch on that for a minute? Private medical is what I bought for my mother-in-law before she became a landed immigrant--the oldest one in our family to be a landed immigrant--and the amount of money I paid for private insurance is the same amount I'm paying for MSP.