It's an absolutely urgent issue. Minister Champagne, on Thanksgiving, said that he heard us and that they are going to address it as soon as possible. We saw that as a good-faith commitment. We did not see any investment in the fall economic update. We are disappointed by that, but we saw it as coming in budget 2023. There was nothing that came in budget 2023. That was, quite frankly, shocking and surprising. I don't understand.
This seems like an easy win politically, but more importantly it seems like an easy win for Canada since this has such huge impacts on our economy. The lack of investment is costing the Canadian government probably over a billion dollars in people leaving Canada annually right now, which is much less than we're asking them to increase it.
Why is there a roadblock? I have no understanding of this. It's surprising because it seems like an easy win.