Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all the witnesses for your presentations.
What I'm hearing, I think from everybody, is the issue around immigration and the need for immigration for Canada to sustain our economy in a variety of different sectors.
The government is gearing up for November 1 to table the immigration levels numbers we will be expecting next year. I wonder, in this context, if you would agree that we need to increase the immigration levels numbers from our current 300,000 level to a higher level. By way of context, the former minister, John McCallum, had an expert advisory panel that gave him advice, and the advice was that the immigration levels should increase to 450,000 over five years. That was back in 2016.
I wonder if I could get a quick answer from around the table, starting with Mr. Dykstra.