Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Madam. As I said in my previous presentation, the CIC should compile a list of the trades and professions that are in high demand. That should be sent overseas. The new people brought in as temporary workers should be in those categories, not other categories. I think

Citizenship and Immigration committee  These employers--we can say unscrupulous employers--may not be able to do that for a long time. I understand that the people who come to Canada as temporary workers, which is being extended to the students, will be allowed to apply for permanent residence from within Canada. I th

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, sir. I can answer that in two steps. One is that you rightly asked whether, if people don't want to move from other parts of Canada for various reasons, we are going to let Alberta, for example, suffer a slowdown in its economy. No. Immigration has become more of a gl

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll tell you how I calculated it. Last time I remember immigration had this backlog program, that came about 15 or 16 years ago. At that time they gave permanent residence to everybody who was out of status at that time. For the last 14 to 15 years, no program has come to regu

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, sir. Yes, I have to agree about the guest workers or whatever you want to define them as, illegal workers... You see, the fact is that once they're here for a couple of years or three years, they get used to the lifestyle here, which is of course probably better than

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The more realistic figure is 300,000 people, more or less. It's a very close estimate.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I haven't talked about undocumented workers at all yet. But if you people will ask me about that, I'm okay then, no problem.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Please.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, sir.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. I'm going to start with the temporary foreign workers issue, and then I will address the issue of so-called undocumented workers. I've prepared a few notes, and I'm going to go step by step. I'm not going to go into a lot of details, because everybody knows what is r