Thank you very much. The processing delay is causing people financial hardship and has cost them the opportunity to get their permanent resident status, with a multitude of escalating consequences.
Ms. Desloges, your suggestion is that the government should be undertaking to “regularize” some of these people and just move them through the system quickly. I think this is what you were basically saying. From that perspective, take the situation with caregivers who have been stuck in the system for years. They lost their job because of COVID. They can't get a new work permit because of COVID. This now has an escalating impact for them. They've also lost their opportunity to make their PR application.
Would you suggest, or would you agree, that the government should in fact look into regularizing these individuals? Clearly, they are needed here. We keep bringing in temporary foreign workers as caregivers, yet we have a whole bunch of them who are already here and who are now out of status.