Mr. Speaker, I really enjoyed the masterful performance by my colleague across the way. It was worthy of The Young and the Restless, or in this case, the old and the ranting.
However, I want to pick up on one thing, and there are some others, and that is immigration and the comments he made.
Last year the government brought in 430,000 people to Canada, more than any government in history by a long shot. Yes, we want to get all those folks in with engineering degrees and so on, but we are faced with a constipated system. The former government went from a 50,000 person backlog to well over 800,000. Therefore, it has taken five or six years to get those people into the country.
We are making our best effort to do that. The new program we are bringing into force, with the help of the Liberals by the way, is going to improve that. This is going to be good for Canada because we are fixing the immigration system that they plugged up for 13 years.