Thank you, Mr. Chair.
The simplest way, of course, is to expedite PR applications. That is the ultimate goal. That's the only way people would feel they really have settled in Canada. Yes, providing an open permit, as the committee motioned earlier, will help. The problem is that it's still temporary status.
Even worse is waiting for the open work permit. They need to go through a very long processing time. It's over half a year now. They fall into that “maintained” status I mentioned in my speech. That is a huge problem. In the short run, if we don't take them out of maintained status, they will be very unstable and in limbo. Ultimately, it's PR that's most important.
Thank you.