Thank you for your question.
The answer is no. We were very pleased on March 13 when the government gave us 12 more months to find a solution or to see if immigration rules would change, especially in rural areas.
However, what the government did not announce that same day was that families could not stay. So a worker who had been here for two or three years with his family was allowed to stay for an additional 12 months, as the government told us, but his family had to go back home. Of course, these people left everything behind to come work in Canada, to learn French, to help grow the economy, to contribute to society. Yet they are being told to leave with their families or to stay without them. That doesn't work. It doesn't make sense. These people won't do it because, from what I'm hearing from all the panellists, there are still human beings at the heart of this.