Mr. Speaker, the government's changes to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act will set the system back to the 1950s. If these amendments pass, the new powers given to the minister will be very scary.
The Conservatives should be investing more money in hiring more immigration officers, not cutting the amount of people we let in. The backlog of immigration applications has gone up by 100,000 under the Conservative government.
All of this country's population and labour market growth will come from immigration over the next two decades. Immigration represents the key to Canada's future success.
This kind of politics is harmful to our country.