Thank you, Madam Chair. I will be sharing my time with Mr. Redekopp.
Thanks to both of you for your testimony.
Deacon Rudy, I want to put something to you and get your feedback on it. It seems to me that we have this challenge where there are crises in the world. The public is justly moved by images from those crises. The government makes commitments in terms of resettlement. Resources are moved from other places to that resettlement.
The problem is that this public policy response isn't increasing the net number of vulnerable people who are helped. It's simply moving resources around. There are people with long-standing challenges who are not in the top line of the news and, therefore, they're actually getting bumped down. What we really should be thinking about is not moving resources around, but how we help more people.
Related to that, when we ask this question, the government will always tell us that they can fulfill these new commitments without it negatively affecting people in other places. However, from what you're saying your consistent experience has been, it seems that if the government comes out and says they're going to help 20,000 people over here, this is necessarily going to draw resources from other places, which will expand backlogs and reduce the number of people who can come, at least in the current time frame.
What's your reaction to that?