Absolutely. I completely agree with what my colleague just said. I would simply add that, with this in mind, we want to preserve the system. If there are issues with the system, we must recognize them and try to deal with them.
On that note, I told the other committee member that, in the past, we would have substantially reduced the numbers. The two parties in power in the 1980s drastically reduced the numbers when things got a bit tense. We should go back a bit to this approach and not automatically assume that we'll have plenty. We've had historic numbers. We need to reduce them in order to preserve this typically Canadian cohesiveness and openness. That's a good thing. However, how will we do so? I think that the talking points from ten years ago are no longer useful today.