Thanks for raising our privately sponsored refugee program. It's unique around the world. It's a global best practice. Wayne, in your riding, in Kootenay—Columbia, it's similar to where I come from in Fredericton, where groups are always eager to support vulnerable people around the world through that program. Through the tabling of our levels plan, we continue to raise the number of privately sponsored refugees who will be admitted to Canada. I believe we've tripled the number of privately sponsored refugees from what it was before 2015. We know that's because of the charity and desire of Canadians to play a role in this effort.
Through our signing on to this compact, we've had a positive leadership role in seeing now five other countries around the world adopt, with certain specifics tailored to their country's unique needs, their own sponsorship programs whereby private citizens are now starting to support the resettlement and integration of refugees.
We know that this program is important. We are trying to meet the demands of Canadians. Certainly, the fact that we have a well-managed and quite robust migration system that allows us to forecast who we will admit to this country on a one-, two- or three-year basis is itself a global best practice and something that we'll continue to share with the global community through our work on these compacts and in other discussion forums that we entertain around the world.