It's not being cut. But you put your finger on a very serious problem, which we are aware of. It's a big stress point operationally, and people are waiting too long to get their citizenship grants, there's no doubt about it. Quite frankly, the challenge is that we have obviously limited resources, limited tax dollars to spend in general and in our department, yet the volumes just keep going up. The volume of visitors and permanent residents has gone up, as have the number of citizenship applications.
First of all, there's a big program of modernization in the citizenship branch being led by Madame Deschênes, which makes better use of technology. They are increasing their productivity, so we're getting through more grants with the resources we have.
Quite honestly, Mr. Lamoureux, one thing we need to look at—and I encourage the committee's suggestions in this regard—is perhaps better pricing the fees relative to the cost. Right now the fees we charge are producing revenues much lower than that cost of offering the service, and I think maybe we need to align fees and costs.