Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much, Minister, for your excellent remarks today.
You used the word “transformational”. That word is tossed around a lot, but I think in the last few years our immigration reforms truly are within that category and your leadership on that is appreciated.
Some of the statistics were quite startling to me and I'd like to probe a little further. Three times more to western Canada is understandable with the economic opportunities there, two times more to eastern Canada, but Ontario is down by one-quarter.
Is it the department's sense that this is almost entirely attributable to the economic malaise in Ontario?