People can deny, but no one can deny it if they've looked at the facts. Compare the first five years in office of the Liberal government to our first five. They cut landed family members by 38%. We increased landed family members by 8%.
We have increased the annual number of family sponsorships by thousands. You would never know that from what one hears from the Liberal members. They cut immigration by 32% during their time in office. We increased immigration by 7%, despite the world's worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
On settlement services, they froze service for 13 years. They froze services to help our immigrants integrate. This is something that the Liberal government paid lip service to, talked about, but did nothing to actually implement. In our time in office we have tripled settlement service funding to $600 million across the country. We are renewing it. We're kicking the tires. We're making sure that the provinces and our settlement agencies across the country are offering the best service to make sure immigrants get to work quickly, orient themselves quickly, find the services they need and realize their individual and family potential in this country.