I think I would echo that question. The question this committee has to look at very seriously is whether a quota is an appropriate measure or a system to facilitate family-class immigration or family reunification. I don't believe it's consistent. It's arbitrary. It's an arbitrary number.
You have an 80,000 quota, but you have 100,000 applicants. Why are those 20,000 families not getting reunited? What is different about their circumstance, apart from the fact that their applications didn't get submitted on time. I think it's an arbitrary measure; that separation of families has a negative economic and health impacts on newcomers.
As was mentioned, we're talking about human lives and human stories and I think a quota system is inconsistent with our objectives, collectively, in terms of our immigration, economic and humanitarian.