Mr. Speaker, not at all. Under this government, we have reversed a shameful record of neglect of immigration by our Liberal predecessors.
We have increased the budget of the immigration department by 57%. We have increased immigrant settlement funding by $1.4 billion. This is the first year in a generation where the backlog for federal skilled workers will be going down rather than up.
When the Liberals took office, the backlog was fewer than 50,000 applications; they drove it up to over 800,000.
This government is taking action for new Canadians and for our economy.