Madam Speaker, I am rising again to follow up with the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Immigration on a similar issue. It is on immigration levels and the immigration levels plan. I want to draw his attention to comments made by a senior member of the Liberal Party who is deeply involved in the Prime Minister's economic planning. Of course, I mean the former Bank of Canada governor, Mark Carney.
“Mark Carney said that Canada has experienced 'failures of execution' when it comes to immigration policy in recent years, taking in more people than the economy was able to handle." He goes on to say, “It’s not even with hindsight, it’s in real time, you can see that we had much higher levels of foreign workers, students and new Canadians coming in than we could absorb.” That is the complete opposite of what the Prime Minister claimed in his crisis YouTube video that he made on the immigration levels plan that his minister was unable to defend at committee. I am following up on a very specific part of the immigration levels plan.
Can the parliamentary secretary explain to me why the humanitarian and compassionate level was cut by 57% when promises have been made to Hongkongers, Ukrainians, Sudanese and Yazidis in Canada, and they will all be expected to fit into this particular stream that will only have 4,300 people in it?