Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you, Minister and officials, for being here.
We just heard the phrase “chain migration” repeated here at the committee, despite the fact that this is a clear effort on the part of the government to reform the Citizenship Act. There's a distinction that needs to be made there, I'm afraid.
Minister, in your comments, which you weren't able to get entirely on the record, I think one important rebuttal to this particular argument about chain migration does relate to numbers. You gave a number of 4,000-plus in terms of what the government has seen up to this point from those who would be affected by this legislation.
Can you repeat that fact for us?