Mr. Speaker, I want to say congratulations to the parliamentary secretary. I look forward to working with him.
I have to say, though, that caregivers deserve landed status now. To create better efficiencies for IRCC, what the government can do to free up resources is simply automatically renew and provide extensions of current work permits, study permits, visitor visas, expired PR documents, expired certificates of PR and so on. This would save time and resources for IRCC so that it can get on with doing other work that is so urgently needed. The streams the parliamentary secretary talked about in terms of some work being done, I appreciate that, but there is so much work that needs to be done, and the issues that I highlighted earlier are some of those that continue to be outstanding.
On the issue around reunification for family members, the government should suspend paragraph 179(b) so that those who want to bring their loved ones here to be with them while their PR applications are being processed under the spousal sponsorship application would be able to do so.
I urge the government to take action so that we can truly create a system that meets the needs of the community, allows for loved ones to reunite and ensures that caregivers and temporary foreign workers are treated appropriately and fairly.