It's true that there are settlement service costs associated with immigration. I don't know that they should be driving immigration policy, since they tend to be fairly short term. The greater costs that I'd be concerned about are people returning, and that is to say people leaving, like in the last question, as well as people's satisfaction at arriving in Canada, if they arrive and are unsuccessful. In the old days, again before 1990, we had an immigration policy where the immigration rate went up during booms because of people's success in the labour market and the cost of settlement services are very low during booms, and finding a job is relatively easy. Alternatively, settlement service costs are very high when people arrive during a recession, because finding employment is very difficult, people lose their skills, and they need to retrain in new fields.
The cost issue is certainly there. There are a lot of subtleties when thinking about it. I'm not sure exactly what else the minister will be thinking about, except perhaps for language training, where it's becoming increasingly clear that the language training we provide is not adequate for many people, and we should be providing substantially more.
Thank you.