The minister is aware, I think, that I have never been a fan of caps. I've made that clear to him. Economists don't like caps because as soon as you cap anything, you need the government to allocate, and governments are not good at picking winners.
It is much better to create a very transparent system that is predictable and not politicized. That is what category-based selection has done. It has politicized economic immigrant selection. I've been a strong critic of that. I think that's the worst immigration policy introduced in this country in the last five decades. I feel very seriously about that.
There's no need for caps if you create a transparent system, which we had for decades. The problem is that, now, people are playing the lottery. Post-secondary institutions and employers who take in temporary foreign workers are monetizing that lottery. They're willing to hold it up as a carrot: “Come to Canada and here's your lottery ticket.” That's the problem.
We need a way more transparent system than we currently have.