Citizenship and Immigration committee  North York. Can you tell us, sir, some of the functions that the Chinese Canadian Community Alliance has done in the last year or so to reach out to the new arrivals, the mainland Chinese arrivals, into Canada?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You were funded?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Okay.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  So what work has your organization done, sir, to reach out to the new immigrants and to be involved in the immigration and all that?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Have you received any funding from Citizenship and Immigration Canada or Canadian Heritage?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, they're dishing out all kinds of money. Certainly, after this, you can apply. Mr. Pang, are you supportive of Bill C-50, sir?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Okay. Let me give you some facts and figures, sir, and after that I'll let you decide. After the Conservatives took office, immigration processing times out of Beijing went up by 48% the first year. That means, if it took one year to process a spousal application before 2006, it took a year and a half in 2006.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I have a point of order, please, Mr. Chair.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Can I ask who Mr. Komarnicki is replacing? This is his second round. I didn't hear anybody else saying that they would--

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, well, you got an answer.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, the question is if I am accusing the minister of misleading the Canadian public. Do you disagree with me on that statement?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I crunched some numbers a couple of months ago, and they certainly haven't been challenged by either the parliamentary secretary in the House or the minister herself. Those numbers showed that between 2005 and 2006 there was a 20.67% increase overall in the amount of time it took somebody to come to Canada throughout the system.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Picking up on that, sir, would you say that if the minister under the proposed system were to fast-track skilled workers and pick and choose them by country or category, that wouldn't do anything to decrease the backlog? The backlog is going to stay there, and the backlog is 925,000 cases.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  How many of the clients in your practice are saying they want to get out of the system because it's taking too long? Is it 5%, 10%, 20%? Any one of you may answer.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Creates, I was very surprised by your comment about doing the 180 degrees, but I guess you've read the legislation and have seen what some of us were seeing also. My question is on a more general scenario. Any of you can answer it. The minister is saying we're going to allow doctors to come into Canada faster.