This Government introduced Bill C-17 to address these specific issues. We do not want to turn away the women who show up at our border. For that reason, we introduced the Temporary Resident Permit, thus extending the length of time they can stay from 120 to 180 days. It would be easy to send them elsewhere, but we want to welcome them to this country, to give them the opportunity to succeed and the time to decide what they want to do, whether it be remain here or go elsewhere.
On February 7th, 2008. See this statement in context.