Thank you.
Like many, I have many spousal applicants in my riding office and sometimes I'm not quite sure if they're honest. Many times I know they are, and often when they are honest, they still get denied. We also know the processing times have gone up over time.
Obviously, we want to prevent marriages of convenience coming in, but the fact that there are some bad apples, the people who want to come in fraudulently, and because we take measures to stop that, does that increase wait times for all the good people? We know wait times have gone up, but to what extent might the rise in wait times be related to efforts to stem marriages of convenience?