Citizenship and Immigration committee  Unfortunately, our information base does not have that. I suspect it would be a very small number of cases, though, given the circumstances.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Indeed. I may have misinterpreted your initial question. All of those cases that are subject to removal order, once we're notified by CBSA, would be expedited—all of them would be. As to how many of those we are not able to complete before the 60 days runs out, I don't have statistics.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't believe we have those figures either, because we don't track that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think that would be fair to say.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm sorry, I think I'm—

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Rather than the 60-day window?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Again, I think that is something we'll take back to have a look at. As I say, the 60-day window was put in place initially as a time window that people reasonably expected would be adequate to fully make an approval in principle decision.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Indeed, it would be that and the window time to determine whether there was a significant, compelling security risk at play.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  After that.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We've used the public policy provisions under the H and C portion of the act to put people who wish to submit a spousal application, who are out of status, in the same standing as someone who is in status. So they are processed and treated in the same collection of applications that somebody in status would submit.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Because they're being considered for factors other than spousal relationships.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The average time for processing H and C applications is 25 to 30 months, and that's a reflection of the volume of applications.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Just to clarify, while the public policy treatment of applicants who are without status is under the H and C umbrella, they're not treated in the same way as H and C.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think that's a valid question, and presumably that is the purpose for which you are studying this. I guess what I can say is that within the scope of the existing act and the existing regulations, there was flexibility to be able to act for this category of individuals in a relatively quick fashion to correct or address a perceived imbalance or inequity in treatment.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm telling you no data in our system allows us to answer the question you have posed, and I regret that.