Thank you.
What I've never been asked to talk about is some of the general issues of why we have the immigration levels we do, and whether they're working for Canadians. I would like to make a plea that sometime in the new year perhaps this could be raised. We're told, for example, that we have among the highest, if not the highest, net immigration per capita rates in the world. We're told it's essential to our economic well-being. There's no question that our economy gets larger with immigrants.
The key question though is, do Canadians benefit individually? On a per capita basis, are Canadians better off?
We're told among other things, for instance, that we have to have immigration because of labour shortages. Interestingly, just a few weeks ago, the Toronto Dominion Bank issued a report saying that widespread labour and skill shortages were a myth. This is a major bank. Whatever skill shortages exist are isolated, and likely no greater than a decade ago. Just a few months earlier, in April, the Bank of Montreal said that reports of labour shortages were highly exaggerated, and that actually the levels had gone down in the last 15 years. Now that's probably—