Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all the witnesses for your presentations.
I think we're all in agreement that we need to enhance immigration numbers. I know there's been a lot of discussion around the pilot. The pilot is important, although we heard on Tuesday night on the ground that the pilot has not yielded those kinds of results. It's cumbersome, it's bureaucratic, and it's problematic.
From that perspective, should we be looking at an immigration policy shift? Instead of looking at temporary foreign workers programming, should we move into more of a permanent residence programming? Then in that instance people would have the opportunity not only to come to work for themselves, but they could bring their families immediately. If you had a family here, you could grow your family, and so on.
From that perspective, I would like to get some comments from the witnesses around the table here. I could start with Professor Yoshida, because you mentioned the importance of family and how to grow that in terms of retention particularly.