Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and I thank all the witnesses for their presentations today.
What I heard from the witnesses today by and large is that you're suggesting Canada and Canadians really realize the contributions refugees and newcomers make to Canada. Welcoming refugees is not just a humanitarian effort; rather, they make real and significant contributions, economically or otherwise. As Ms. Dureid mentioned, somehow there's misinformation being spread that refugees only come to take advantage of Canadian society and so on. To that end, I want to focus on exactly the contributions you talked about.
Specifically, in the presentation you made to us, Mr. Alio, you threw out a whole bunch of numbers and studies and so on. I wonder whether you can elaborate on those, and whether you can provide documentation to this committee so that it can become part of our committee's record. Those questions often get asked, and somehow people undermine them or say they don't exist. Their automatic go-to place is to say that refugees are simply a drain on our society.