Citizenship and Immigration committee  I have it.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I regret that none of us in this room have had the opportunity to read this academic study comparing Canada with Australia. What I received when this was released today was an overview of it, and I was very impressed that it was done, and I was also impressed with the similarities between the two systems.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  —then let's look at that and see what we can do that's similar.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's very likely. I agree. I have proposed nine suggestions on what could be done to the current system to prevent the problem you're describing, without the totalitarian piece of legislation that this is.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That is one of the suggestions.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Not percentage; it's points.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's very true. But you could have a provincial nominee program that could deal with the trades issue, as they have in Manitoba, Alberta, and British Columbia. They don't have it in the province of Ontario. That's very easily solved and will not be solved by this piece of legislation.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's right. It says that right in it. They can send it back.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  They can retain it, return it, or otherwise dispose of it, and in any case it doesn't constitute a decision. Now, what kind of country do we want to live in where people pay money, file applications with reasonable expectations, and the minister, in her own opinion, can retain, return, or dispose of the documents without rendering a decision?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's the current system, which I don't agree with. We have to change it so that we don't have a backlog of 925,000, growing to more than a million.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It was CTV actually. It was Paul Hunter on CTV.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Every piece of legislation passed by this House, as well as provincial legislation, is made subject to the charter.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Is the question to me?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's correct.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That I don't know. That I don't know.