Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to the witnesses for being here with us today.
I am looking at the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and its objectives. Obviously, these objectives are central to those you have to achieve.
Paragraphs 3(1)(a), (b), (c), and (d) state the exact direction IRCC must take. Allow me to read a few of them:
(a) to permit Canada to pursue the maximum social, cultural and economic benefits of immigration; (b) to enrich and strengthen the social and cultural fabric of Canadian society, while respecting the federal, bilingual and multicultural character of Canada; (b.1) to support and assist the development of minority official languages communities in Canada;
For transcription purposes, I am at subsection 3(1) in the part entitled "Objectives and Application".
I am from New Brunswick. I am part of an invisible minority because I am an old-stock North American. After 200 years of anglophones and francophones living together, we in New Brunswick came to the conclusion that the only way to protect minorities and the social fabric was to ensure that there was a duality in the most important government spheres such as education and health. I am not talking about a duality in the sense that bilingualism equals duality, but a duality in administration.
Do you know what I am talking about?