Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all of you for being here with us today.
Minister, you mentioned that biometrics has already been researched. You're in the policy-writing stage right now at the department, and the policies have been developed over the last three or four years.
So why is it that we're studying now, in this committee, as to whether we should have introduced biometrics into our immigration system? Why is it that the government proposed that we study biometrics when clearly it's already been done for the last many years?
What does that say about the witnesses who have come in and said, you know, we should or we shouldn't, maybe or maybe not?