Citizenship and Immigration committee  Would it be double 2005, triple 2005?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Above a hundred. Okay. How many temporary foreign work permits do we give out per year? How many did we give out in 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Under 113,000.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  But this Bill C-17 will in fact be an administrative bill that will look after the 113,000 temporary work permits that were issued last year. This bill would affect them, would be administrative.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Okay. Then when the minister is saying that we're putting this bill in order to protect the vulnerable, she's referring to the 66 or the 100 exotic dancers who came in; she's not referring to the 113,000 people who applied for work permits?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, let's be specific here. The 12th has passed. The parliamentary secretary wants to go to the 13th. So if you want to do that, we will say that the report is to be tabled in front of the House before the recess, not later than the 13th. If we recess tomorrow, it will be your responsibility, sir, to make sure that it gets tabled tomorrow and their responsibility to bring forward the—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's one or two pages.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  You should add in there that we should be reporting to the House by December 12, just in case the House rises tomorrow.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, we have an amendment on the floor for December 12. I'd like to put the question on that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's to “report to the House by December 12”. So the main motion—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We had the motion on the floor. The motion was duly voted. Why are we even entertaining this?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Put the question.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  But you have agreed to bring officials in front of us?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Okay. That's unanimous, then.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would like to make a friendly amendment that we ask the officials to come in and give us a briefing on this.