Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration.
Last Thursday the minister justified increasing current immigration levels contending that the Canadian economy was growing, inflation was down, interest rates were low and hundreds of thousands of new jobs had been created.
The same day the prime minister asked the United Kingdom Chamber of Commerce “to take our jobless youth off our hands and hire them as interns”.
Who is right on Canada's ability to absorb more immigrants, the minister or the prime minister?