I think you meant 2025, not 2015.
The reality is that for the provincial nominee program, for example, provinces have been coming to me and begging for more spaces, but then turning around and blaming us for immigration.
I think that to some extent we as a society have become addicted to temporary fixes. We owe it to Canadians to rein them in, and this is a plan and a policy that I put into place. When it came, for example, to half of the temporary residents who are in Canada, including international students and the postgraduate permits they get, it's a plan to reduce that number in a responsible way, and we've seen the impacts that's had on rental prices. We've seen the pressure on the economy easing.
That's an important reality. We cannot have unlimited volume without losing the value of immigration. The levels we put forward this year are still ambitious and they still plan for a growing economy, but everyone doesn't have the right to bring in whoever they want whenever they want.
You're right that my job is much more than simply stamping a passport at the border: It involves engaging with community members, provinces and territories to look at their volumes and work with them.
I think provinces, frankly, have been irresponsible in the immigration sphere. It's why we cut their allotments in half, with the idea that we would work with them if they were willing to do their fair share in taking asylum seekers in provinces that aren't Quebec and Ontario.