Mr. Speaker, I find it unfortunate that the tone of the debate from the other side of the House is less than generous.
The question asked was what if those immigrants were experts in a specialized field and we did not have a great number of them in Canada. What if they were great humanitarians? What if they were outstanding citizens? What if they were healthy people with no anticipated health problems? Even if they were, our society has many people with the same problems.
We are an accepting democratic nation. Why do we always have to look at it from an angle of negativity? Why do we set a negative premise?
Let us look at the aboriginal history of Canada. What if the aboriginal people of this country were not as accepting, understanding, trusting and sharing with regard to the in-migration of people from other countries? Then what would we have? What would we have had? If we had a closed door policy on immigration, would Canada be what it is today?
Why are we not more generous, more understanding and more accepting? Why are we not working together on this policy?