Public Accounts committee  That's basically the fact that most of those applicants were sitting.... Don't forget that this report was at the end of 2022, not this year. They applied just before the pandemic, and then they sat in the inventory because we couldn't process people who couldn't come here. We stopped the intake, which is good, but if you look at that, you see that those people are now processed within five months.

Public Accounts committee  Yes. I think it's important to make the difference between an application that's rejected at the beginning because because it's not complete. The applicant is asked to do everything again, and then when we receive it, the clock starts again. There's no waiting for them. If we've started to process the application and we ask for a document, the applicant doesn't lose their place in the queue.

Public Accounts committee  Maybe I can jump in here. Since the beginning of this year—we started years before, but this year has been more active—to give capacity in some offices, we are taking more of the TR, the temporary resident program, applications and we are moving them into Canada. Since the beginning of the year, we have—

Public Accounts committee  The approval rate of francophone African students has risen from 27% in 2019 to 36% today. That's an increase of more than 10%.

Public Accounts committee  I think I would answer this one by saying that when you look at the graph and all the data in the report, that's from 2022. We were just at the end of the pandemic. We accumulated large backlogs of applications during the pandemic, and we couldn't process certain categories of clients coming more frequently from overseas during COVID-19.

Public Accounts committee  Yes, we have the legislative power to do it. We're working on defining and working the details out. That's coming up, but it's not in effect yet.

Public Accounts committee  The reports are generated by teams of course. I regularly receive them in my capacity as senior assistant deputy minister. I even received one just yesterday. So the situation is being monitored. We ensure that these cases are processed. We take immediate measures if any of them seem to be pending for too long.

Public Accounts committee  They're generated every month.

Public Accounts committee  I imagine that's possible, provided confidentiality rules are complied with and names are redacted. We can provide them to you on Monday.

Public Accounts committee  Yes. Maybe I can just jump in. We did use the GCMS user IDs that were inactive, as you're saying, Deputy, but then what we're doing is making sure that we're running the queries on a regular basis now so we don't have those cases. If there's anything left in the system, we've developed queries to make sure we pull them out to take action on them.