Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't know whether I clearly understood the question, but perhaps I could ask you one. If we want to overheat the economy and we need this labour, why don't we permanently accept the workers who can play that role? Why just accept them temporarily?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Initially, were you asking a question about numbers as well?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would point out that there is no systematic research on numbers of people without documents, at least as far as I know. If anybody here can correct me, I would love to know about that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Estimates range from 20,000 to 600,000. With that kind of estimate, I think it's difficult to come up with anything serious.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As far as I know we don't really have systematic research on this issue, nor do we know.... We have guesses about the labour markets--the occupations that people with less than full status or with precarious status have--but again it's not systematically documented.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That was with reference to the stock of temporary foreign workers.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. Thank you for the opportunity to address the committee. Some of my colleagues today are going to be making submissions arguing for a moratorium on deportation or for regularization programs for people without immigration status. I support these positions, but my comm