Madam Speaker, my final petition is on immigration. The petitioners humbly pray and call upon Parliament to reduce immigration to the previous average level of one-half of one per cent of the population, or about 150,000 per year, with a basic intake of not less than 50 per cent of the total, composed of carefully selected skilled workers required by the Canadian economy. They request that our refugee acceptance rate be brought into line with the average for other asylum destination countries. This petition bears 42 names.
In the House of Commons on March 20th, 1995. See this statement in context.