I appreciate all of your comments. Of course, the purpose of this study is to prepare a report to recommend to the House of Commons, or to the minister, how to improve the family sponsorship program. I appreciate a lot of the comments that you've made thus far explaining the benefits of parents and grandparents.
Mr. Wang talked about child care, teaching or maintaining language skills, community volunteers, and buying for the family. All of those are excellent things.
You also emphasized the length of time it takes to process these things, and it sounds, from your experience, like it's a minimum of four to five years.
We'll start with Ms. Hamdan, perhaps, but I wonder if each of you could make recommendations to the committee as to how the family sponsorship program could be improved.