Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the hard-working member of Parliament for Vancouver South for her excellent work.
As she well knows, the Liberals left us with the legacy of huge backlogs, reduced immigration. When we took office there were 830,000 unprocessed applications. Some prospective newcomers were waiting a decade to come to Canada.
We have taken action. We reduced the waiting time for foreign skilled workers from seven years to one. We have cut that backlog in half. We are taking action to fix the once broken system to make it fast, fair and flexible. I will have more to say on this score in a few minutes.