Citizenship and Immigration committee  Our side can understand that Bill C-50 is retroactive as of February 27...applies only to the new applicants. All applicants, under Bill C-50, will not be affected. So actually Bill C-50 is not addressing the backlog at all.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, I was not consulted about this bill.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Personally, I still believe we have a very good system in immigration policy. In my opinion, there's really no conflict in the system we have now, which is fair, transparent, and equal for everybody. It's a model; in fact, it's a model of immigration policy for other countries.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. What I mean is that we—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We don't need to abandon some of them and cherry-pick the others, but we can take care of them both by refining the system. The government could do something more to put more resources to upgrade the system. Let me give you an example. Under the previous government it was a two-

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Ladies and gentlemen, I will be straightforward as to what I would like to say. The Minister of Immigration claims that she needs Bill C-50, the amendment to the Immigration Act, to reduce the backlog and give priority to the category of immigrant that