Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, witnesses, for being here on a Friday.
I come from Windsor, Ontario, a border city, so my first question is going to be for Immigration.
Obviously, in a border city, especially with the volume of traffic—about 40,000 vehicles per day and about 40% of Canada's daily trade by land and rail come through here—we get a lot of refugees, especially during times when bodies in the United States try to push them outside their country, including some of the companies that were hired to actually move them from Florida and other places.
We also have a college, St. Clair College, and the University of Windsor, which use international students as part of the base for their educational systems. They come in from all over the world and are actively recruited.
We also have some of the highest numbers of temporary foreign workers in Canada, as does the area just outside my region. Some people live here and then travel every single day to work on mushroom farms and other types of greenhouses and agricultural industries.
We also have a shortage of skilled labour in the manufacturing sector. My office has already opened thousands of inquiries about immigration. About 30 to 40 per day come in here to us, so my question is this: How strategically wise was it to close the immigration office in the city of Windsor to the public and to those persons? How strategic was that and when will that be reviewed?