Madam Speaker, pardon me. I apologize.
After eight years of the Liberal government, Canada's immigration system is broken. With a backlog of over two million and an average processing time of over 20 months, targets simply will not be met. For skilled workers under the federal stream, in 2019, processing an application took 9 months. Today, it has tripled to 27 months.
Why is the Government of Canada so slow at processing workers, whom we need in Quebec, in British Columbia and across Canada?