Thank you, Mr. Chair.
We hear that 280,000 people have been waiting a very long time. If I am not mistaken, we sometimes hear about applications dating from 2003. Is that the farthest back they go?
So there are people who have been waiting nine years and now everything is being wiped clean, and they are being told to start over and make a new application. Is there no way to do something else? Could there have been more people to handle the applications that have already been made? This is not something new: we were aware of it; you were aware of it. Why was it decided that these people were not important? They have to start over and wait more time.