Mr. Speaker, the answer to this question will be very short. There were not only Liberal governments at the time; there were two governments, the Conservative and the Liberal. Both accepted immigrants during the years the hon. member mentioned. I should know, because my wife is from Germany and was a member of this group of immigrants during the 1950s.
Times have changed a lot, needs have changed as well, and the Liberal government did not respond. We responded to these problems.
The Liberal government talks about 300,000 people. This is an approximate number. I have just asked the committee to examine this issue, and I believe it has agreed to examine the number of people we would need now, because the figure is not known.
When we ask the minister, she tells us the figure of 300,000 comes from the red book. I do not think so. The last study was done in 1980. There has been nothing since then.